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The Royal Rumble

Though I write fiction about as often as Halley’s Comet darts across the night sky and “good” fiction even less frequently, sometimes I find that a little story helps me to process the events of the...

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The Audacity to Blog

It’s quite the audacious activity that I’m doing here, writing on this blog, publishing it for the world to see and hoping (if not expecting) that you’ll come and check it out, again and again.  It’s...

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Dear President Obama,

It seems that everywhere I turn, someone is weighing in on the relative merits or, more likely, countless faults of our Commander-in-Chief.  Somewhere along the way the Biblical admonition to “respect...

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The Power of the Written Word

Sometimes the light flashes in tears, and the beauty of those tears buoys this world out of its weariness. Last week we celebrated perhaps my favorite day of the school calendar. We take the...

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Meet Chester Crabtree- Teacher Extraordinaire

To get in touch with my inner middle schooler and empathize with the suffering fiction that I implore my adolescent charges to pen, here’s a meager, rare fiction offering.   One does not enter the...

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The Power of Writing

Tucked towards the end of Luke 1, as part of the pre-show entertainment, so to speak, is a single phrase that could be the line that launches a thousand ships, or at least a nice compositional armada....

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Fantasy Woes: The Chosen One

Disclaimer- Though never a good practice to open a composition with a caveat, this one begs explanation. At our school we’re preparing for a visit from Lisa McMann, author of The Unwanteds series.  To...

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Being Used

God is amazing. While such a definitive declaration violates Hiemstra’s rule #7 for effective introductions (“give me something novel or new, something we as the world have never heard before”)...

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A Book Review Kind of Sunday

Book Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King I’m a sucker for a good book on the craft of writing. I have two copies of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. I devour anything by Brian Doyle...

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Book Writing Reflections

The writing of any kind of book requires Talent for sure, but in getting from Opening Day to Finished Project , only one seat is occupied by Mr. Talent. The rest of the seats in the van are filled with...

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