Note by Note

Good morning, friends! The clouds are growling, the sun is hiding, and Rachael is finally sitting down to write another blog post! So many times I've been told that it's a good idea to stockpile blog posts in advance, and now that I haven't posted in nearly a month I'm starting to see the wisdom of that plan! Lord willing I'll be able to make some time to write down some posts beforehand and, hopefully, get better at making my self-imposed deadlines. I'm coming to you with yet another piece of news. I'm excited to announce that I was a winner for the April Scriptorium Challenge! (If you don't know what that is I encourage you to visit their website: Challenge (scriptoriums.com) ) I hope you are encouraged by reading my thoughts.  Tally ho! Rachael Anne Matthew 10:24-33: Whoever Denies Me… I swallowed. I knew I should say something. A clear path had just opened for me to mention my faith, that I did Bible Bee for half the year and what an impact it has on...

  Good morning, my friends! I have a bit of exciting news for you today. My second poetry book, Dear Mr. Covid, is launching NEXT WEEK!!! Today I have a post about everyday poetry as well as a sample of the poems you will find in Dear Mr. Covid. I hope you enjoy! Maybe you’ve never written a poem in your life, except for those silly ones they make you write in English class. Or maybe you’ve written dozens of poems before and you want to see what this other poet has to say. Maybe you find it easy to sit down and spin off tales with rhymes and meter to boot, or maybe you struggle to make it through one line.  Maybe you’re even wondering right now, “What is a poem?” “What is the first thing I do when I start a poem?” The first thing I can tell you is that there is no magic formula. There is no secret that we poets have mysteriously hacked into. We’re all just a bunch of people who have decided to make words look like art, and sometimes that art looks pretty terrible. But we don’t...