Taryn R. Hutchison's Blog: The Glorious Muddle, page 8

Thankful, Humbled, Blessed!

I have so many things to be thankful for this year, but one of the biggest, and definitely the most recent, is this: I HAVE A PUBLISHER!! My historical fiction YA (young adult) novel will make her entrance into the world in Fall 2020. My baby will be one of only four books published next […]

What’s Wrong with Trick or Treating?

Tomorrow–Halloween– is one of the biggest holidays in America. It’s second only to Christmas, in terms of amount of money spent and numbers of people who participate.  Yet, many people are vehemently opposed to it. I do get it that our world is scary enough without adding bloody ghouls, zombies, and vampires to the mix. […]

Juggling and Balance

Have you ever watched someone juggle balls that were different sizes and different weights? Maybe they even add a knife or an orange or a volleyball to the mix. I feel like that sometimes. I was already trying to keep a lot of balls suspended in the air when another one, a much heavier one, […]

Invited to Stay

I want to tell you about the fantastic book I just read. Leslie Verner had me at her opening metaphor: a rootless tumbleweed. A self-described “goer,” Verner knows what it’s like to not only be a stranger in a strange land, but to also feel like a misfit back home as she struggles to learn […]

Aging and the Moon

My younger friends are having fun using the aging app. I don’t want to; it’s too close to real life for me. Besides, how can anyone who grew up under the Cold War use a Russian face-altering app, especially when you have to allow them access to all your information? Not me. All this focus […]

Uphill all the way

Some times I wonder why I do it. Every time I make progress climbing uphill, I find out the mountain is higher than I thought. And the ball I push starts rolling backward. Have you ever felt that way? For every step forward, you take just as many backward. My chosen profession, writing, takes a […]

Fruits of Your Labor

When you work hard for something, you want to see results. You want your effort to be worth it. You don’t want to have toiled in vain. That’s just human nature. One of my proudest moments happened three years ago, when I received my master’s degree in writing. It wasn’t just the culmination of more […]

Angels or Helpers?

When I lived in Eastern Europe, all of us single women missionaries shared a secret. We’d tell each other stories involving this secret. If we had to do something scary and alone, such as cross an unfriendly border carrying contraband materials or travel to a train station in a seedy part of the city at […]

Lent and Listening

As I forego sweets for 46 days and add another reading to my morning devotional time, sometimes I wonder why I do this every year. Most Christ-followers don’t observe Lent at all; the majority of those who do are Catholic. It’s so much easier to do something than to do without, to give gifts than […]

Not Wrong, Just Different

The Redbud Post published my article for their current issue–about conflict resolution over current events, with ideas for how to make your way in this toxic climate we live in today. Click here to read the article. You can subscribe to The Redbud Post here. The Redbud Post is a monthly, online magazine written by […]