One Community: July

One Community is a monthly photo project in which participants photograph their homes and community with a theme in mind. The theme varies by month. The goal is to both showcase similarities and differences in our communities worldwide – and bring us all closer...

3 Minute Fiction

NPR Weekends hosts a writing contest every so often called, “Three Minute Fiction.”  The rules are simple: a theme is provided and participants can submit up to 600 words. The latest round’s theme was: A character finds something he or she has no...

Books: Love Medicine

I bought this copy of Love Medicine on a whim while picking up groceries recently. I remembered loving Louise Erdrich from a Native American lit class I took in undergrad, but didn’t remember that I’d already read this novel. Come to find out, I...

Books: A Year of Biblical Womanhood

I recently finished Rachel Held Evan’s “A Year of Biblical Womanhood.” I was unfamiliar with Evans, or her popular blog on Christianity, until my friend Sarah and her husband Matt visited Colorado last summer. They mentioned Evans as a voice for...

One Community

One Community is a monthly photo project in which participants photograph their homes and community with a theme in mind. The theme varies by month. The goal is to both showcase similarities and differences in our communities worldwide – and bring us all closer...

Reading

Can we interrupt the “Kelli has lost her marbles and is trying to distract us with adorable Texan parade photos” train for a moment? I’ve read some great books lately. Books you really should consider reading. Let’s start with Shantaram. This...