The Stories Between Us

Could a place as ordinary as the laundry room office become a sacred space? Today Maile and I are talking about the places where we write, where we've written in the past, and whether or not the laun…

How does adopting a child, taking ten years to write a novel, and more than 60 rejections shape someone's creative life? Kelli Stuart lets us know in today's episode, where we talk about writing in t…

Today we're talking all things scary: books, movies, Maile's early adherence to Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down program. Yeah. Not even kidding. But we also talk about what scares us creatively, our deepe…

Today we talk about being tired, diversifying our creative energies, and the difficult question: what if I'm never as good at this writing thing as I want to be? With special thanks to friends who re…

Today we share about an unfortunate incident that happened over the long weekend. But we found some wisdom in the current cult classic show Ted Lasso that helped us overcome the sense that "it's the …

Today we're talking memoir-writing...the way good memories spring up unexpectedly when we immerse ourselves in our past. And also how hard it can be to write about the difficult things, especially wh…

There are a lot of exciting things going on around here these days: Maile received her first publisher rejection, we're offering a new memoir-writing course, and we're working hard to maintain our ho…

Today we talk with author Sarah Arthur about her wonderful obsession with Madeleine L'Engle, how she kept writing through a cancer diagnosis, and the 18 year journey of writing her novel. She has so …

Maile and I talk about what it's like to be married for 22 years and the impact that our relationship has had on our writing and creativity. 

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Today we have a wonderful conversation with author and editor Jennifer Dukes Lee. She shares her greatest disappointment as a writer, what she’s proudest of, and what she means by growing slow.

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I had to work hard at helping Maile keep it together for this episode, since we were talking with one of her favorite writers, the famous Carola Dunn, author of the Daisy Dalrymple murder mystery ser…

Today, author Courtney Ellis talks to us about the realization that her family had lost their sense of playfulness, and then shares what they did to get it back again. 

Courtney's new book: Happy No…

Jon Acuff, best-selling author of the new book Soundtracks, joins us today to talk about the things we believe about ourselves, the practices that have led him to where he is today, and when he reali…

Today we talk about the release of Shawn's latest book, The Weight of Memory, and why he no longer expects to get taken straight to the top of the mountain. Maile is more into the Ecclesiastical side…