Jana MacDonald

Observer | Writer | Teacher

Welcome, friends. I hope you'll stay awhile.

I’m a wonderer and a wanderer, and I write to make sense of the world around me. Maybe we can figure it out together.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.  

-Ernest Hemingway



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We Don’t Have to Stay

We Don’t Have to Stay

I lay the project down, fingers outstretched to relieve the cramping in both hands. The yarn wrapped tight along my size 10 needles. There …

Reflected

Reflected

Reflected Hi friends. I know it doesn’t seem like I’m writing, but I am. In an effort to write with more intentionality, I’ve embarked …

Rooted

Rooted

Rooted 2020 and 2021 were largely dumpster-fire years. It all feels like a blur honestly – long, monotonous days confined to our home, separated …

A Gift to the World

A Gift to the World

We timidly walked up to the old church building, a beautiful stone edifice that has ministered on the same street corner downtown for over …