The Family Recipe
Prep time: Lifelong Level of difficulty: Challenging Recipe serves: Limitless The first ingredient is people. More than one person is required for the recipe to turn out correctly, although substitutions are possible: non-blood relatives, people from different...
A Questionnaire for an Estranged Mother
Five years ago, my estranged mother passed away, leaving me to navigate the grief of our lost and unhealed relationship with little assistance. In order to make peace with a broken past and learn to forgive, I collected a list of unanswered questions that went to the...About Author
Linda MacKillop
Linda MacKillop earned her M.F.A. degree in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction and works part-time for Tyndale House Publishers. Her nonfiction work has appeared in literary journals, including Under the Sun, Relief Journal, and The MacGuffin, among others. Her essay, “So Much Sky,” earned a Pushcart nomination. As an author of a middle grade novel and one novel for adults, she waits patiently to hear a publisher cares about these imaginary characters and their plights as much as she does. Linda and her husband live in an emptynest outside of Chicago. Occasionally she blogs at lindamackillop.com.