Kelly Irvin
Strong Women. Powerful Stories.
No one is talking. Or making eye contact. We’re a group of strangers seated around a table in a conference room eating sandwiches and brownies from Costco and waiting for the clinic to begin. Mary, a volunteer with the ALS Association, who’s been doing this for 30 years, smiles and says, “Wow, this is a really …
A key research tool I use for all of my Amish romance novels is a biweekly publication called The Budget. It’s a thick broadsheet newspaper filled with letters from “scribes” who write about what’s going on in their Amish and Mennonite communities across the country. I love settling onto the couch and leafing through the …
It’s that time of year when everyone is making their new year’s resolutions. 2016 has taken a bow, and 2017 is still pristine, untarnished, and full of hope and possibilities. Writers often make goals that involve marketing plans, sales, number of books written, and new contracts. While those are worthy goals, I find myself in …
My family is from all over the place these days. That’s true for most of us in this fast-moving, mobile world. At no time is it more evident than during the holidays. That’s why we treasure time spent together celebrating the season. Recently, we decided to do something we’d never done before—a tamalada or a …
Every year at Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for a host of blessings. That is not surprising. What does surprise me is how that abundance of blessings continues to grow, no matter the circumstances. As we enter the advent season, a season of hope and expectation, I look back on 2016, a year that began with a …
“I don’t know who you are. You stoop a little as pain creeps into your joints Like a burglar stealing the precious jewels Of swift, free movement, Leaving you seated in life’s chair.” These lines are from a poem I wrote about eighteen years ago called “Twenty-Twenty Vision.” It’s my only published piece, …
