It’s registration week! I’d been waiting for the email telling me to go into the Lancaster University site and make the move from “offer holder” to “full-time student.” Woot! So nine screens of data later, as I’m happily uploading my (appalling) ID photo and giving my next of kin, I come to the final page,…
Since my PhD research will include interviews with living people, my application–all 18 pages of it–for the ethics review at the university (here’s my previous post about it) had to pass through three levels of approval: My supervisor The ethics committee, including a department reviewer The Ethics Officer, chair of the ethics committee The reviews…
You know how we writers are. We need to know something? We look it up, we go to the library, we talk to other writers, we find an SME (subject matter expert). So in preparation for writing my thesis novel, I do what I’ve always done, which is line up people to interview who know about…
“In the lowly place of prayer, God can lift you up to the highest mountain.” —Whinburg Township Amish proverb A Colorado dude ranch is the last place that homebody Amanda Yoder would believe God wants her. But the owners have once again hired a group of Amish young people for the summer, and despite her…
It’s a happy day when I can unleash something beautiful on the world—such as this glorious cover for The Highest Mountain! Using my photograph of mountains and road from our November trip to Colorado, cover artist Jenny at Seedlings created this beautiful invitation into the world of my book. Look for it at the end of…