I’m currently at work on a book about quiet, what it means to have quiet as a homeland of the self. What is the shape of a quiet life? How may we retain a quiet mind, a listening heart, a wondering eye in the midst of a frenzied, disordered, distracted world? I’m wrestling through those questions now.

Someday, I’ll write a novel… but it’s still growing in my mind.

You can connect with me most easily by signing up for my newsletter, From the Vicarage. I write here about life as I find it in my corner of England, and I always feature a book, a glimpse of beauty, and a word of theology I am pondering. Instagram is where you can find me on fairly regular basis, thinking about good books, and the making of beauty in the company of small souls, and the challenges of online life. Occasionally, you might also catch me reading aloud a poem. Patreon is where I’m cultivating literary fellowship of souls round the sharing of good words and books. We talk the power of story and the grace of fiction and the day-weaving wonder of words.

In the meantime, I read many novels and listen to a great deal of music, and drink as many cups of coffee and tea as I can get away with in a day. I’m wife to a marvelous Dutchman named Thomas, mother of the elfin Lilian, the hobbit-child Samuel, and the wee sprite Lucie. We make our abode (and I do my writing) from an old English vicarage in Oxford, with a giant willow woman in the garden. And I hope that someone will on day say of me when I die what William McGreel said of his wife Elizabeth Yates (a writer): She has plenty of courage, a strong faith, and a native expectancy of good. Living with her is a high adventure.

I am so very glad you are here. 
My Beauty keep you as you go.