Category Archives: Writing Process

Averting My Eyes

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Sharon Garlough Brown

I admit it. I avoided watching the news yesterday. I couldn’t handle the graphic images of the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan. I couldn’t bear to watch the terror unfold in real-time Twitter and Facebook updates. I couldn’t bear the … Continue reading →

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Giving Birth…Again

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Sharon Garlough Brown

I was with book, as a woman is with child. (Orual, from C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces) My memories of giving birth to our only son, David, are vague at best. Jack and I were living in Glasgow, Scotland, … Continue reading →

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“It All Began with a Picture”

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Sharon Garlough Brown

That was the title of an essay in which C.S. Lewis described how the story of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe began. “(It) all began with a picture of a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a … Continue reading →

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Burning Bushes and the Art of Noticing

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Sharon Garlough Brown

I’ve never blogged before. I never thought I would be blogging. Something in me recoils at the thought of becoming even more self-absorbed and narcissistic (I already have enough self-centeredness in me). And who am I to presume that anyone … Continue reading →

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