Principle #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 […]
Read MoreI’m not much of a blogger. I’ve come into this in a back handed way. My first effort was to publish one of my novels one chapter at a time with the idea that it would go viral and result in a real publishing deal. I put out one chapter and when there was no […]
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Jerusalem: sacred to all three of the major monotheistic faiths. A site of controversy, violence and abuse of the sacred, a place of contradiction. Karen Armstrong, in her book, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, describes thousands of years of history of this city, a history filled with bloodshed. With good reason, Jesus wept over the […]
Read More(This was to have been my last column for Jackson Citizen Patriot however it didn’t get published so I’m posting it here.) Why is it so hard to let go of “stuff.” I’m not a candidate for the reality show on hoarders. One can easily walk from room to room in my home with only […]
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