NOEL SEIF

I have been keeping a pandemic journal since Palm Sunday of 2020. All the churches were locked down then. Easter was fast approaching,...

CAROLYN COLES VANDENBERG 1954 - 2019 Before she married, she was Carolyn Coles, daughter of a railroad engineer and a nurse, sister to...

During our recent visit to Turkey, we visited the mausoleum of the 13th century poet and Sufi mystic, Rumi. He was the founder, inventor,...

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This: A Novel Jacqueline Woodson Paperback: Puffin Books, 1994 Jacqueline Woodson’s novel, I Hadn’t Meant to...

Yellow Kayak:  A Picture Book Written by Nina Laden Illustrated by Melissa Castrillon Hardcover:  Simon & Schuster Books For Young...

The Songs We Hide: A Novel Connie Hampton Connally Paperback:  Coffeetown Press, 2018 The Songs We Hide is first and foremost a love...

The Frightful Ride of Michael McMichael:  A Picture Book Written by Bonny Becker Illustrated by Mark Fearing Hardcover:  Candlewick...

We don’t have these here in my little corner of the world, but I found them on the walls of some churches in Ireland. More eloquent and...

One of the first things my husband and I did when we visited Dublin two years ago was to visit The Writers Museum. (Yes, I got into...

As a lover of books, I’m also a lover of libraries. From the Ryerson wing of the Grand Rapids Public Library where my love affair with...

Pay Attention, Carter Jones:  A Novel Gary D. Schmidt Hard Cover:  Clarion Books, 2019 In Gary D. Schmidt’s newest novel, Pay Attention, ...