by Lanier Ivester | Jul 5, 2012 | Farm Life, Journal Entries, Stories
Last month, I had the great privilege of interviewing one of my heroines, Andi Ashworth, upon the occasion of the re-release of her book, Real Love for Real Life by the Rabbit Room Press. You can find the interview here, and I really urge you not only to avail...
by Lanier Ivester | Nov 25, 2010 | Essays, Journal Entries, Stories
Thanksgiving, like any other beloved memorial with which the years are reckoned, has its own certain types, its venerable standard of ‘brightest and best’ against which each year’s observance is weighed. They may all—or most—be cherished in our hearts, a mellow,...
by Lanier Ivester | Nov 17, 2010 | Journal Entries, Stories
It was a glorious November day, stark and long-shadowed as only South Georgia can make it. The road we traversed was a familiar one—as familiar as the drive to my own home—and every field and house and stand of pines was a familiar friend. Even the red dirt roads...
by Lanier Ivester | Jul 17, 2010 | Journal Entries, Stories
Disclaimer: the post that follows professes to no merit or significance, literary, theological or otherwise. It’s just a silly story. And it’s quite long. Consider yourself warned. 😉 It was too easy. We had come laughing over the golden sands, we six: my...
by Lanier Ivester | Jun 7, 2010 | Journal Entries, Stories
I want to begin by saying that I have no intention of titling every post henceforward and forever after Innocence Mission songs. It just so happens that I’ve had a lot of poignant moments lately—some happy, some not so much; all under the Mercy—that Karen Peris’...
by Lanier Ivester | Feb 22, 2010 | Journal Entries, Stories
I could tell by the tone of my mother’s voice that something had happened–even over the phone I sensed the gentle sadness–and I knew with a pang of kindred sorrow what it was. Aunt Ruth had died. Quietly, my mother told me, in her sleep. 104 years...
