deanna hershiser

I’m starting over.
I was into a wonderful, rambling post about further musings on belief, and. Well. Maybe it wouldn’t have been wonderful to try plowing through on your way to a zillion other blogs, distractions, and weekend activities.
So I shall attempt to concise things up a bit for next week. Anyway, one of those cool [...]

For a few years I tried to write prettier – to add flourishes that would astound. I guess I didn’t think I would run into that purple prose problem, because I had tended at first to write so sparsely.
Surely, I thought, I could only strengthen my prose by gazing often into gilded, trickled springs or [...]

This week, you may have noticed, I posted five times.
Last weekend I decided to try writing things ahead and then utilizing the blog’s “schedule post” feature so they would magically appear, as if predestined.
This has been a trial run but not a trial. I’ve kinda liked it. Schedules in my world are always for flexing, [...]

Yesterday morning I greeted Tim near the warming woodstove with this thought: “I’ve figured out the difference between my church preferences and Orthodoxy.”
“Figured out” is maybe a stretch, but I had made a leap in my thinking process. It’s fantasy vs. realism all over again.
From the first, our daughter, Victoria, loved fantasy stories. Through all [...]

Water reflected moon’s shine. White crests and packed sand dimly shown, drawing the two of us from a room of comfort into the chill and gusts before dawn. Feebly I attempted visual capture. But more to the point, the narrative flowing in my head channeled thoughts toward an interesting moment.
The writer-learning this past year has [...]