“I made quilts as fast as I could to keep my family warm, and as pretty as I could to keep my heart from breaking,” wrote one pioneer woman in her diary. Pioneer quilts were usually made from scraps – Pa’s britches, empty flour sacks and Meg’s outgrown coat. Many quilts told stories; you could…
My career as a writer was launched in 1980 when I sent an unsolicited article to Calvinist Contact – and it was accepted! The impetus for my article was born on a gold-tinged Sunday afternoon in September: the golden leaves of autumn in the woods next door, the golden sunlight streaming over the hill behind…
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