Emily Parke Chase
Welcome to Day 2 of the Chase family celebration of Advent! Join us as we look at the powerful emotions that Mary experienced during the nine months of her pregnancy as she anticipated the birth of Jesus. Before that angel appeared, Mary’s life was running in neutral. Luke doesn’t give a clue where …
Read More Advent 2012 – Day 2Welcome to the Chase family celebration of Advent – 24 days of devotional thoughts leading up to Christmas. This tradition has gone on in our home for over thirty years but this is the first time I am sharing the tradition with a larger circle of friends and colleagues by means of my website. Each …
Read More Advent, 2012 – Day 1The grocery store shelves were empty earlier this week. Hurricane Sandy was on its way into our region and local residents had cleared the shelves of emergency items like milk, bread, and bottled water. At places like Home Depot and Lowes demands for sump pumps, generators and batteries outstripped the supply. The newspaper reported …
Read More “Eye of the Storm”My half-hour radio interview on Atlanta radio is now available on-line here. –Emily
Read More Radio interview now availableLast week our local writers’ group gathered for their monthly critique session. To warm up our skills before the critique, our leader gave us a brief writing exercise, challenging us to take a common word associated with the Fall season (cider, cornstalk, pumpkins, etc) and place it in an unusual context. My assigned word was …
Read More Autumn BlessingsJust a quick note here to say that you can hear me being interviewed for a radio program with Dottie Coffman tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 9. Details are at http://wimoradio.com/wordpress/the-dottie-coffman-show. Feel free to call in and offer a comment!
Read More Quickie News Item!Our son Tim dropped his high school textbooks on the dining room table and announced, “Mom, Dad, I want to be home schooled.” Ever since second grade, Tim had fumed about school. Our other children were happy in public school, but our oldest child complained that his assignments there kept him busy yet …
Read More Mixing Oil and WaterDid God order a heavenly dove down to my college dormitory room years ago to tell me that one day I would be speaking to thousands of hormonal teenagers about dating and marriage? No. If he had, I might have whooshed that birdie out the window and slammed the sash down on its tail feathers. …
Read More “Cracked pots”Breaking news! After years of avoiding the social media scene, Emily Chase is finally crying “Uncle!” You can find my author page at www.facebook.com/EmilyParkeChase. Basically all it does is lead you back here to my website, but at least this is a small step into the scary world of cyberspace. Because of this step, I …
Read More “Uncle!” EC is now on Facebook!July, 2012 More news…just had an article accepted by the magazine At the Center, a publication for people who work at pregnancy resource centers. “More than Food Stamps” is a reworking of a more technical article I had published in The Bible Translator years ago. The more popular version compares the circumstances of a …
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