by Jody | Dec 20, 2022 | Fiction
Another Christmas card. Another Christmas letter. Another Christmas photo of a fit dad and a pretty mom and their beautiful stairstep children – 11, 15, and 19—all wearing Santa hats. Even the dog. This one is from her sister. The letter provides a brief overview of...
by Jody | Nov 22, 2022 | Fiction
Sam Johnston gingerly stretched his legs to their full length, eyes shut tight against the morning. “Sam? You awake?” Sam responded with silence. With any luck, his wife would give up and let him sleep a few more minutes. But the undeterred Stella tried again, louder....
by Jody | Nov 8, 2022 | Fiction
On this rainy day in November, AKA the month of NaNoWriMo, I thought I’d give you the gift of fiction. The following story first appeared in 2007 in St Anthony Messenger. I had written the first draft as a creative writing assignment in my local community...
by Jody | Oct 11, 2022 | Fiction, Stories Between Friends
What the Brook Knew Joanna Kenyon and I got to be friends while playing hooky from a session at the Inspire Christian Writers Conference at Mount Hermon earlier this year (now with a new name). Fancy coffee drinks, conversation, and tears offered the antidote...
by Jody | Oct 1, 2022 | Non-fiction
I’ve been shopping for clothes and thinking about labels. Not so much the labels sewn to waistbands or neck seams, but designations of popularity and unpopularity, success and failure, left and right and wrong and up and down. My 40th class reunion is approaching...
