by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
My dear friend signed a contract with an agent today. We met during a writing prompt session in the intimate library of the Margarite House in Evanston, four years ago. A handful of us writing strangers with no established trust hunkered down in red leather chairs to...
by Margaret Philbrick | Feb 13, 2015 | Growing Life
She’s never been to Starbucks. Never stayed in a hotel. Never heard a bedtime story and now she’s living with us. Our new year began on Janurary 2nd. We drove a quiet 11 year old girl from Boston to our home, arriving at 2:00 a.m. to be greeted by welcome notes and...
by Margaret Philbrick | Dec 15, 2014 | Faith
Watching and Waiting with Wonder Signs and wonders. A phrase so common in the Bible that the word “wonder” appears 109 times. Wonder is defined as: The feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable....
by Margaret Philbrick | Nov 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Dear God, It’s been awhile since I’ve written to you. Usually we’re just talking. I don’t know how many letters you get, but since Thanksgiving is coming up it felt like a good time to say thank you in a different way. I’ll try not to make this too long because you...
by Margaret Philbrick | Nov 4, 2014 | Art
Amidst falling linden leaves, I passed by and heard the sound of a Skilsaw coming from the potting shed. For about a year I’ve been hoping to catch a glimpse of the backyard artist who lives three blocks away. Wrapped in yellow paint, her windowed workshed is a tiny...
by Margaret Philbrick | Oct 12, 2014 | Growing Life
Amidst a cluster of sunbaked, red brick buildings, new shoots of lime green ivy are emerging. Unremarkable and common, of the English Hedera helix variety, it is reaching out beneath a Texas live oak tree on the campus of Trinity University. As I walk up the Laurie...
by Margaret Philbrick | Aug 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Most of July was spent promoting my novel and trompling through northwoods forests, running trails, spying on an eagles nest through binoculars and praying along the lakefront…pretty sweet , but deer ticks are not sweet. They are the size of a pinhead and...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
While I was singing pop hits like “Memories” from the movie “A Star is Born” into my hairbrush, my mother was watching Glen Campbell TV “specials,” as we called them back in the 70’s. The “Star is Born” album cover had Kristofferson and Streisand gazing into each...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 15, 2014 | Faith
Subs for my classes in place, I drove four hours last weekend to Calvin College in Michigan for a writer’s conference. Not knowing what to expect, I arrived in the dark, without my glasses to twist and turn my way down the roads of Grand Rapids which are marked by...
by Margaret Philbrick | Mar 6, 2014 | Art
Dear Beloved Students, We are looking at the finish line and it isn’t even Spring Break! Yet, in less than three months you will be frolicking in summer splendor and I will be promoting my novel which comes out June 1st. Here are some thoughts to finish the year with...
