Kim Batchelor

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Knitting Stories

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 Share on Tumblr “Let me show you how it’s done,” the knitting woman said. She knitted a series of stitches before she came to a point where she slipped one stitch from the needle. While the single stitch sat untethered, she knitted the one just beyond it before slipping it back on the needle creating […]

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William Butler Yeats

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 Share on Tumblr   One writer most influenced the dreamscape of my youth—the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I read his poems in assigned texts in my high school English class. I memorized two of them thanks to songs by folk singers Judy Collins—the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”—and Donovan—“The Song of the Wandering […]

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Touching the Mourning Heart

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 Share on TumblrFor a long time, I have been interested in stories rooted in the traditions of the Jewish people—from The Red Tent by Anita Diamant to The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. I seldom talk about the novel I’m now working on that is part of the Christian tradition—a reimagining of the story of Mary […]

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Madeleine L’Engle and a Wrinkle in Time

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 Share on Tumblr This is not a book review because I have not yet read the book. This is not a movie review because I have not yet seen the movie. In spite of those oversights, for years, I have been fascinated by what I knew of the story of A Wrinkle in Time and […]

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Meditating Stories

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 Share on Tumblr   As a writer, I tend to be a ‘pantser’ (“fly by the seat of my pants”) rather than a ‘plotter’ (relying on detailed outlines) when I write. Before participating in last November’s “National Novel Writing” (NaNoWriMo), though, I reversed course and created brief descriptions of a set of scenes ahead of […]

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The Story in Every Picture

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 Share on Tumblr  Three days before the end of 2017, I found myself facing the dilemma of having read only 29 of the 34 books I’d planned to read that year. I had three options to meet my Goodreads challenge: (1) fail or (2) cheat by indicating I had met my target. Instead I choose […]

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