by Deb Farris | Jun 4, 2026 | Faith and Creativity, Musings, Reflections from the Road Home, Writing
What I learned when I cut 18,000 words Some of you may have noticed that I finally got up the nerve to upload my email list to Substack yesterday. A new essay is now live there. It grew out of a quiet morning—blueberries, irises, and the strange way endings sometimes...
by Deb Farris | May 14, 2026 | Grace in Ordinary Life, Musings, Writing
Sometimes a piece of writing finds its way into the world and you begin to notice the path it takes. Some of you know the looong journey I’ve been on—in more ways than one—and that I recently started a Substack called Letters from the Road Home to stay close to the...
by Deb Farris | May 7, 2026 | Musings
A few days inside the life I still can’t believe is mine. I wanted to pack the book for my trip. It’s a hardcover, it didn’t fit in my computer bag. Instead, I packed the prayer in my heart that I’d read from it the morning of my trip. It’s a most beautiful book, lent...
by Deb Farris | Apr 18, 2026 | Faith and Writing, Musings, Reflections from the Road Home
In 1959, that VWBug was the Wenzlermobile. It might have started there—tent on top, three kids in back—somewhere between countries, not knowing the road would one day lead me here… What a night. Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Sometimes we do...
by Deb Farris | Apr 6, 2026 | Grace in Ordinary Places, Musings
— On Holy Saturday restlessness, our human “what ifs,” and the love that chose us anyway. Saturday, I’m sorry to say—it being Holy Saturday and all—was a restless day. It started off okay, I wrote, read, walked—the usual. But by the afternoon I couldn’t sit still. I...
by Deb Farris | Apr 3, 2026 | Grace in Ordinary Places, Musings, Spiritual Reflections
—A Good Friday Reflection on the Lord’s Prayer I hadn’t planned to write today, it being Good Friday and all—a sacred day for Christians. But what happens when a familiar prayer slows you down enough to really hear it? This… Sometime between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m., I...
by Deb Farris | Mar 26, 2026 | Faith & Art, Musings, Writing
After a week of wondering if I should start a Substack, like most of my writer friends have done, I ended up in a jumbled mess in my head—and so had my words. I can’t write when my head is jumbled. I realized the remedy to all this is simple: feeling loved. That’s the...
by Deb Farris | Mar 10, 2026 | Musings, Writing
Today, sitting with“through this door:wisconsin in poems”,I was reminded how poetry can open our eyes to the small things. I am grateful for the poets, editors, and the space to see—to read, to write—something new…🧡 How is it that wordsso carefully,so soulfully...
by Deb Farris | Mar 4, 2026 | Family history, Musings, Writing
My son Charlie on the left in 1983. My grandson Charlie on the right in 2026. Yeah you, I’m talking to you! 👩🏻🍼 I know! There’s two! 🐻🐻 The most precious baby gift I received when your papa Charlie was born, was a hand-stitched quilt made by his great-grandmother,...
by Deb Farris | Feb 9, 2026 | Aging Parents, Family, Musings
In memory of Dad. “Taters” was originally posted in February 2015 My dad, Bill, would have been 96 today. This is the first year since he “went home to Jesus,” as he always said, that I forgot it was his birthday. I only remembered because it...
