Thinking today about the old chicken-or-the-egg question: do we choose the stories we tell, or do the stories pick us
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Do you think you have to be unhappy (or lonely) to produce?
This question, and others listed below, emerged from a discussion run by K C Culver, who leads the Literature Group
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I used one of my daughter’s drawings in Good Things I Wish You. She was asked by her pediatrician, at
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Emerging Writers Network once posted a guest blog/essay of mine on “the experience of being edited.” This site is a
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My husband, whose name is Winfried, downloaded an early version of Dragon (a voice-recognition app), onto his iPhone. All I
Continue readingA Controlled Pause: Thoughts on Dani Shapiro’s “Devotion”
Projects such as corresponding with book clubs require managing details, and though some claim that God is in the details,
Continue readingA Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words (or Several Hundred, Anyway)
The inclusion of images in Good Things evolved out of a happy accident. I commute long hours by train to
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