by christydistler | Jun 29, 2016 | Novel Ramblings
We recently took a step back in time, visiting Graeme Park, the colonial estate of Pennsylvania’s first lieutenant governor, Sir William Keith. The estate is a swirling of beauty, historical value, and mystery (local lore claims that the ghost of Elizabeth...
by christydistler | Apr 3, 2015 | Faith and Grace
Busyness. It seems like it affects just about all of us. Whether we work full-time, stay home with children, or juggle work and parenting, it seems there’s never enough time in the day. Laundry, cleaning, preparing meals, caring for children, involvement in...
by christydistler | Mar 17, 2015 | Faith and Grace
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! That’s Happy St. Pádraig’s Day, in Irish. But just who was St. Pádraig really? (Hint: He’s not the patron saint of inebriation, as my friend’s Irish mother used to say in disgust at what his holiday had become in...
by christydistler | Feb 14, 2015 | Faith and Grace
Who doesn’t love Valentine’s Day? After all, what’s not to love about a day to celebrate life, love, and of course chocolate, right? Mmm . . . sometimes a lot of things. Honestly, Valentine’s Day is a tough day for a lot of people. For those...
by christydistler | Feb 10, 2015 | Novel Ramblings
“You always did have a pretty wild imagination.” That was the (not unkind) response from a friend when I told her the plot overview of the novel I finished in spring 2014: the physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of a young woman who learns, at age twenty-five,...
by christydistler | Jan 1, 2015 | Word of the Year
Like many people, I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. I’m all about looking ahead and making positive changes in my life, but I’ve never found (personally) that making resolutions for the new year works well. Last year and the year before, I...
by christydistler | Dec 10, 2014 | Faith and Grace
“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from...
by christydistler | Jul 23, 2014 | Fiction Helps
A while back, I took an online course on fiction writing. When the classes started, I found myself a bit disappointed—it seemed that we’d be learning a lot of what I already knew, and I wasn’t so sure that every good story had to follow three-act story...
by christydistler | Jun 13, 2014 | Novel Ramblings
My current novel, a historical romance, takes place in 1756 in a southeastern Pennsylvania Quaker community. Research recently took me to Historic Fallsington, a small Bucks County, Pennsylvania village where time has seemingly stood still—even over 300 years after it...
by christydistler | Jun 9, 2014 | Novel Ramblings
My current novel, a historical romance, takes place in 1756 in a southeastern Pennsylvania Quaker community. Research recently took me to Historic Fallsington, a small Bucks County, Pennsylvania village where time has seemingly stood still—even over 300 years after it...
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