by Vella Karman | Sep 3, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Soli Deo Gloria
I stood alone on my porch on the 4th of July, listening to the boom, crackle, pop of the firework displays surrounding my house in a sort of trapezoid. The sound was as close as bacon sizzling on the frying pan of my stove. A boom would come from the show behind my...
by Vella Karman | Aug 6, 2026 | BOOKS, Clean fiction, Filling your life with LIGHT
I’d never heard of abalones, a type of sea snail, until my friend Lucy Grecu announced the name of her new magazine. The Abalone is a high art magazine…named after a sea snail. Honestly, that sounds kind of incongruent to me. High art? Doesn’t that...
by Vella Karman | Jul 1, 2026 | Author News, Filling your life with LIGHT
I grew up on the edge of a rough neighborhood. Sometimes there’d be gunfire so close it sounded like it was in the backyard. One time, a police squad with K9s and a chopper were out looking for a wanted criminal in the creek about fifty feet from my backdoor....
by Vella Karman | Jun 17, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT
This post contains affiliate links. I’m one of those people who won’t watch a YouTube video for weeks or months, and then goes down an internet rabbit hole. If you ask me, YouTube is one of the safest places online. Every time I upload a short to my...
by Vella Karman | Jun 3, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Guest Post
Did you know God likes to have fun? Probably. After all, He created the platypus. But did you know God likes to play word games? A few weeks ago, I grabbed my backpack and took a walk to the coffeeshop. It’s about a thirty-minute walk, so I decided to play a game with...
by Vella Karman | May 27, 2026 | Filling your life with LIGHT, Guest Post
The other day I was cleaning out my desk, and I came across a bunch of old folders. Most of them were pretty boring—tax stuff, my acceptance letter from college, notes from classes I took years ago. But then I came across a bright green folder so full of stuff it...
