The Voice Inside
I’m getting ready to teach creative writing at a summer camp next week. I recently typed the journal of a my stepmother’s father dated 1895-1908. Someone at church stopped me yesterday for a kick in...
View ArticleA California Girl in Mark Twain’s Court
One of the unexpected benefits for volunteering at Bookshare is book rescue. After a book has been torn from its cover and despined in a machine that would make a French executioner tremble, is...
View ArticleSprouting Idea Seeds For Fun and Profit!
I’m reading a book I picked up at BEA a few years ago called The Mind of Your Story, discover what drives your fiction, by Lisa Lenard-Cook. She talks a lot about the left brain, right brain thing....
View ArticleThe Play’s The Thing
My future daughter-in-law is visiting while she and my son make wedding plans and try to find an apartment. In between their running to and from appointments, she finds time to do her Shakespeare...
View ArticleYou Can’t Do It Alone
I suppose this applies to people working in just about any field, but I’m working on being a writer so this is how I’ll talk about it. You can’t do it alone. Yeah, the writing part, probably should be...
View ArticleOf Books and Readers and Happy Thoughts
It’s been crazy promoting a new book. It’s as much work as the writing, but it’s exciting to see people find what I wrote and like it. That’s just what it’s all about. It’s great when I find a good...
View ArticleMe and Bilbo, We’re Like This!
I know, I know, Bilbo and I! I’m trying to make a point here. Bilbo is one of my favorite book characters. Obviously I’m not a romance reader. I don’t go for the tall, dark, and handsome, sweep me off...
View ArticleLove God With Everything You’ve Got
Love God with everything we’ve got. Then one of the scribes . . . asked Him, “Which is the first commandment of all?” Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord...
View ArticleI’ll Have A Slice of Self-Control Please
Self-control can change your life. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. How many times do we talk about love, joy,...
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