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Author Archives: Ann C. Averill
Connecting the Dots
Some people pick a word for the year, a word they believe God has in some way given them as a guidepost, a word that somehow defines what God’s hope and joy is for them in the next chunk of … Continue reading
Do You Live in a Shack?
A few nights after New Year’s, I watched the movie version of the novel, The Shack by William Paul Young. I read it years ago while it was a bestseller and frankly wasn’t impressed, but then maybe I wasn’t ready … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Spiritual Growth
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Christmas Tears
I’ve been thinking about tears lately. They wash away emotions too heavy to endure, too tangled to name. They keep us from imploding. With a sigh of discouragement and exasperation, an acquaintance once asked me, “What’s wrong with the world? … Continue reading
You Are My Everything
Sunday, it was snowing, and my husband was recovering from Covid, so I took a shower and dressed in fresh pajamas. My plan for the day, skip church, go nowhere, and couch potato all day long. Laying around, in my … Continue reading
Posted in Flash memoir
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The Creche
This week I put up the creche I made with my mom when I was little. This post is a kind of rerun, an edited version of a post about that creche that I shared a few years back before … Continue reading
Posted in Flash memoir
Tagged #childhoodchristmas, #christmascreche, #christmastraditions, #meaningofchristmas
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Does Size Matter?
The following is an essay I read last Friday at BraVa, an event sponsored by Marion Roach Smith and the YWCA in Troy, NY. Marion is the author of The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life, … Continue reading
Posted in Flash memoir, Writing Process
Tagged ##awomansriteofpassage, #comingofage, #firstbra, #marionroachsmith
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Memoir as a Process of Forgiveness
Almost ten years ago, a friend helped me set up a blog after I’d published my first book, Teacher Dropout about discovering God’s grace while I worked in a poverty school. He explained, a blog is like the lady at … Continue reading
Dry Bones
As a writer, I recently listened to an interview with Shayla Raquel on Marion Roach Smith’s podcast, Qwerty. It was so good, I bought her book, The 10 Commandments of Author Branding. In it, Shayla, a self-publishing mentor and branding … Continue reading
Prove-it Prayers
When I was almost a believer, I started praying prove-it prayers to see if God was real. Could he see me? Could he hear me? Did he care about my circumstances? And did he have the power to intervene? I … Continue reading
Posted in Flash memoir, Spiritual Growth, Uncategorized
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