“The gods have two ways of dealing harshly with us, the first is to deny us our dreams and the second is to grant them.” Oscar Wilde What do you do when you have everything you dreamed of and it’s not enough? All of my adult life I dreamed of someday having the time and money to write. I’ve […]
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Another day of cold and snow. As this cold snap continues with no end in sight, I find myself lethargic and unorganized. I don’t know what I’m doing with my time, it just goes by until yet another day has passed with nothing to show for it. The Long Winter I blame it on the […]
Read MoreIn this day and age of digital books and ereaders some predict the demise of libraries, at least as a physical building with real people. The libraries of the future will be virtual libraries that you visit via your computer, or whatever the next technological device might be. You will download not only […]
Read MoreConstruction Zone I’ve been under construction for some time now. I’m not talking about those constant minor repairs and changes that are part of every life. Rather I’m talking about major reconstruction requiring tearing out the old in order to make way for the new. This has included months of home renovation […]
Read MorePrinciple #1: The key you need is always in the pocket opposite your free hand! Why is that? It’s like those socks that disappear in the dryer. Somehow they are transported to sock heaven or wherever it is socks go that have lived a good life of service to those small, but oh so essential parts […]
Read MoreAs a teacher, my policy is to never ask my students to do something I’m not willing to do myself. When I assigned a two week feelings journal to my Substance Abuse class many years ago, I figured I should do it as well. So for one summer I poured out my feelings into notebook […]
Read MoreAdventures in Writing – learning from mistakes, part 2 My first book, Daily Meditations (with Scripture) for Busy Moms, came out twenty years ago and was a small hit with sales exceeding my publisher’s expectations. Had I known then what I know now, I would have parlayed that small success into a career in writing. […]
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Blessings and surprises filled my time at the Write to Publish conference at Wheaton College outside of Chicago. Not the least being the discovery of the wardrobe at Wheaton. Yes, the one from C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. Adventures in Dining I browsed the crowded dining room, tray in hand, looking for someone from […]
Read MoreGraduates through the nation are being told, “Follow your passion.” But what if your passion is to do God’s will? That leaves you with a broad range of possibilities. I love writing but I love God more. I love writing precisely because I experience God through writing. I feel close to God when I am […]
Read MoreI wrote this in January of this year but waited to post it until I felt ready to devote sufficient time to blogging. Since then little has changed. 2013 is looking a lot like 2012. So I thought I would go ahead and post now. Writing 2012 In 2012 I had one article accepted for […]
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