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 | Aug 22, 2025 | Faith & Art, Musings, Writing
Does the story ever end? Ask any artist: the sonata could have one more movement or rest, the painting one more shade of light, the sculpture one more softened edge, the story one more period… or another new beginning. Does the story ever end? Why? Why is it so...
by Deb Farris | Dec 1, 2024 | Books, Travels, Writing
Mailing the Agreement for Just Along for the Ride to my new publisher Sometimes I stand, hands in pockets (hopefully I have pockets) a little self-consciously, as people walk past me, mostly avoiding eye contact, because, you know, that’s what we do sometimes. And I...
