by Ruth Verkaik | Sep 10, 2019 | Books, Creativity, Words, Writing
It’s been awhile! But I’m back after a crazy busy summer with a great review for you! My friend Kate Motaung (moe-ta-oong) the brains behind Five Minute Friday has launched a new paper journal for the annual October writing challenge: 31 Days of Five...
by Ruth Verkaik | Jul 16, 2019 | Books, Creativity, Theology, Thinking
From the Back Cover: When Cohen Marah steps over his father’s body in the basement embalming room of the family’s funeral home, he has no idea that he is stepping into a labyrinth of memory. Over the next week, Cohen’s childhood comes back in living color. The...
by Ruth Verkaik | Jun 4, 2019 | Books, Thinking, Writing
From the Back Cover: After Annie Jacobson’s brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he mails her the address of their long-estranged father. If anything should happen to him in Vietnam, Mike says, Annie must let their father know. In Mike’s absence,...
by Ruth Verkaik | Apr 15, 2019 | Books
The Back Cover: “I hear the clatter of swords and torches outside the caves as the soldiers come for me. In a moment their faces will relax when they see a skinny, outnumbered boy. They don’t realize how dangerous I am. That I have monsters inside me. I...
by Ruth Verkaik | Mar 14, 2019 | Books, Words, Writing
We moved in the spring of 2017. My dear beloved books (pictured below from the “Library Shelves” of our old house) had been sitting all alone – except for visits from rummaging children. Until January 2019. All of these lovelies were packed away in...
by Ruth Verkaik | Mar 11, 2019 | Books, Thinking, Writing
**Welcome to the first book review of 2019! I’ve made a goal to read 50 books and you will read my thoughts on each one here. Stay tuned! From the Back Cover: My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the summer of 1862,...
