A place for writing
— about faith & other
things that life is made of
Hi. My name’s Sarah. I’m an English professor, though I really prefer the word “teacher” — in a past life, I liked eleventh graders best. I live in rural Indiana, and I try to write as often as I can.
This blog started as a Facebook experiment. Towards the end of 2021, I decided to post “500 words before bedtime” every night for thirty days. At the time, I had lots of reasons why, but looking back, I think I just wanted to start writing again.
When I came to the end of the month, I was exhausted, but I’d also found it was good for the soul. So I kept at it. Not every night — that was insane — but once or twice a week, usually.
You can find those original thirty posts here, and also some essays, and some poems and shorter pieces, and, really whatever I come up with. Some of it is obviously informed by my faith; some of it’s just a bit of life that I took and tried to make into words. Maybe you’ll find something you like or something that speaks to you. If you do, I’d love to hear about it. You can send me an email through the handy contact form below…which I think works? We’ll see.
(Also, I made social media buttons because WordPress told me to. You can, like, follow me, if you want. Which, if it ever happened, would be WILD.)
