Empathy Not Excommunication
“If you’re offended when you look on your Facebook page, and you see someone call Hillary Clinton or Maxine Waters the b-word or the c-word, you should be equally offended when you see someone call Ivanka Trump or Ann Coulter those words” – Dr. Brene Brown speaking at...
Laughing with You!
“Someone needs to take out the trash. I can smell it from here.” Our daughter, the prima donna, diva ballerina shouted from the stairs as she rounded the corner to grab her bagel breakfast before heading off to high school. Claiming an extremely sensitive sense of...
Gratitude to the End
“Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.” The whispered phrase, repeated like a Gregorian chant as John leaned back against the bathroom wall submitting to my husband’s lifting of one foot, then the other. The immediate goal, get him into a clean pair of...
Is the Proverbs 31 Woman for Real?
We’ve heard about her, sewing late into the night by a lamp that does not go out, gorgeous toned arms planting a vineyard, a prominent husband, self-designed purple clothing, and children that get up in the morning and praise her. All of that sounds like an...About Author
Margaret Philbrick
Margaret Ann Philbrick serves the Guild as the curator of the Redbud blog on Patheos at
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/redbudwritersguild/ She also co-edited and contributed to the
Redbud poetry and essay collection, Everbloom, Stories of Deeply Rooted and Transformed
Lives (Paraclete Press, 2017). Her first novel, A Minor - A Novel of Love, Music and Memory
(Koehler Books, 2014) garnered critical praise, “An emotional story…clear prose…delicately
constructed….nuanced characters….breaks the mold.” Kirkus Reviews. Back to the Manger
(Singing River Publications, 2009) created with her mother, an oil painter, is now a family
Christmas classic with ten years of consistent sales. She and her transgender sibling Carly are
featured in the video curriculum for the book, Messy Grace by Caleb Kaltenbach which teaches
people how to love authentically amidst lives in transition. Her poems and articles have been
featured in numerous anthologies and publications including C.T., Relevant, Ready magazines,
The Redbud Post and Patheos on-line. Margaret and her husband live on Lake Mendota in
Madison, WI and serve U.W. students from their lighthouse on Langdon,
https://www.instagram.com/lighthouseonlangdon/ . She is the mother of three highly dramatic,
artistic children and an obsessive compulsive dog, Snuggles.