Archive - Tresta Payne

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A note from my reading highlights...and more questions than answers

Feb 28

Links and plans for starting over

Feb 3

January 2023

(Or: Nobody enjoys hearing about your vacation, but just hear me out.)

Jan 27

November 2022

leaving words for posterity

Nov 16, 2022

Is everything random?

Nov 4, 2022

writing forward into new ways with Substack

Nov 2, 2022

October 2022

April 1 // 2022 “Let us call a halt,” Oswald said in his devotional for today. This morning my alarm was set two hours later than normal because it is…

Oct 28, 2022

This is Tresta’s Newsletter, a collection of essays on truth, goodness, and beauty.

Oct 21, 2022

April 2022

January 1 // 2022 I wonder how many years I have blogged on January 1? I won't look back on that, but I know myself and my fresh-starts and…

Apr 2, 2022

January 2022

Courage in Uncertain Territory Hey friends. I hate to say it, but we have been very very awfully busy—that four letter word I despise. It’s antithetical…

Jan 1, 2022

July 2021

Feeding a son Last night there were only three of us for dinner. A month ago there were six at our table on a regular evening and I can’t even explain…

Jul 28, 2021

June 2021

If I am writing about how the world is, I will tell you this: I write from my bed at 6:21 a.m. this morning and the world is lovely. I need new synonyms…

Jun 16, 2021

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