Tag: blogging
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Jesus’ Ascension and Max the Dog
It’s been TOO long since I’ve posted on my blog. One of my summer goals, along with getting back to meditating, is to start posting again. So stay tuned…. I have been writing a lot, though, working on my first book and I have three Living by the Word articles out now in the Christian…
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A Virtual Placeholder
Last night I ransacked my recently cleaned home office in search of a poem I wrote two years ago about a sweet moment with my daughter. During a week when I am trying to write a sermon, a wedding homily and a first draft of my new essay, I thought it would be the perfect,…
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2015 in review
At the beginning of this new year, I want to thank those of you who read my blog. We are all inundated with reading material. Facebook, Twitter, literary magazines, Christian Century articles and blog posts regularly enter my feed and catch my attention. But reading time is precious and limited. So I am grateful…
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It is Solved by Walking, or Stair Climbing
Last week I had no idea what to blog about until I went to the gym. After ten minutes on the stair climber, I had my idea. Fifteen minutes later on the elliptical trainer I had Three Lessons from a Productive Summer outlined in a note-taking app on my cell phone. Actually, I had ten…
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Three Lessons from a Productive Summer
Lesson #1: Pay attention to baby sparrows. A newborn sparrow surprised me last spring, unballing himself at the end of my driveway as I was heading out for a run. I had mistaken him for a leftover clump of dead grass. His feet, each with three long, hooked toes were bigger than his whole body.…
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Where is the heat in your writing?
I picked up the Rose Metal Press’ Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction at the AWP conference this past March. This morning I began reading it as I contemplated this blog and the writing I hope to do. Bloggers would be well-served to study this “flash” genre of writing, since all of it is pertinent to the…
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