by Wendy Widder | Oct 18, 2022 | Memoir--Every Road, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
My new book is releasing November 1 (and available for preorder* NOW!). Below is an excerpt from chapter 6, “The Switchbacks.” A few weeks after my seminary graduation, I spent a day at Mackinac Island with a friend, and we had a perfect day. As it turned...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 11, 2022 | Memoir--Every Road, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
My new book is releasing November 1—just 21 days from now! I’m blogging samples of it for the next few weeks. I was beginning to feel like God’s plan for my life was a goalpost that kept moving. First, he had led me into the elementary classroom. Then he took me out...
by Wendy Widder | Oct 4, 2022 | Memoir--Every Road, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
My new book is releasing November 1—just 28 days from now! I’m blogging samples of it for the next several weeks. It was August of 1999, and I was a late-twenty-something whose life was not going according to plan. There was no spouse, and no prospects were in...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 27, 2022 | Memoir--Every Road, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
My new book is releasing November 1—just 35 days from now! For the next several weeks, I’ll be blogging samples of it. My dad liked to walk the neighborhood for exercise and probably his own sanity. When my siblings and I were children, we often accompanied him. I...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 20, 2022 | Memoir--Every Road, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
My new book is releasing November 1—just 42 days from now! For the next several weeks, I’ll be blogging samples of it…beginning today with the book’s introduction. My high school geography class spent a lot of time making maps. Topographic maps, road...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 6, 2022 | Transitions, Wayside Stops (Reflections)
As sure as the compass points north, I was lost. That night I was driving in downtown Minneapolis for the first time, having moved to the area only a few months earlier. A single woman without a smartphone, I fought the suffocating darkness—both within and without—as...
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