by Lanier Ivester | Dec 20, 2016 | Journal Entries
I had the honor and pleasure of teaming up with illustrator Jonny Jimison for The Rabbit Room‘s collaborative Advent project pairing poets and artists. Jonny did a fantastic job illustrating my sonnet: Also, here’s something fun: a podcast I recorded with...
by Lanier Ivester | Dec 9, 2016 | Journal Entries
Hello, friends. I hope you’re each enjoying this second week of Advent. Second week already? How can it be? One of the interesting things about being a writer is that you tend to experience and observe life at the same time. I’ve generally got a commentary humming...
by Lanier Ivester | Nov 23, 2016 | Journal Entries
Oh, friends. Can it really be Thanksgiving Eve already? I make no secret of how much I love this day--it’s like my house and I together waken to all the practical (and delightfully impractical!) goodness of the season. My rooms feel it as keenly as I do, eager...
by Lanier Ivester | Oct 28, 2016 | Journal Entries
I gave into a cold last weekend. It had been pursuing me for days, ever since we got home from the yearly gathering of our tribe in Nashville, but it finally caught up with me. This meant, among other things, that we did not go to the boat for the weekend, and we did...
by Lanier Ivester | Sep 6, 2016 | Journal Entries
Greetings, friends! I so appreciated the enthusiastic response to my “Proper Introductions” post on Gladys Taber last week! It was heart-warming to hear how many of you share an affection for her writings. She is such a gentling influence; decades after...
