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Creativity takes Courage. Announcing the Creativity Series eBook
When I began this journey back in May, it started out as a selfish quest for an answer. I’d started writing my novel and kept running into the same roadblocks of fear: fear of failure, fear of wasting...
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Creativity Series: Adele Konyndyk “Redeeming Meandering”
Learn more about the creativity series here. Like the series on Facebook. Listen to the podcast on iTunes. Download: Adele-K.mp3 I could tell you that writing fiction feels like making some sinuous...
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Writers Series: “Writing for a Living” by Amanda Fanger
This is a new series (different than the Creativity Series Part 2 that’s coming). You might be asking what’s up with all these serieses? I don’t know, they’re just fun to do. For this Series I asked...
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My brother, we speak in silence
This is an essay I’m currently writing and working on. Decided to share some of it today. The title makes reference to my oldest brother’s inability to talk. That’s not really discussed here. In...
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The Thing-Ness of Peace
I began to wonder: why is peace so hard to think about? Or conversely, why is violence so easy? Margaret Paxson, an anthropologist, wrote a sort of prelude to her future book about peace, specifically...
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The difference between our words
We pray for the sick, the desperate, those who mourn, those in treatment for addiction or disease, and the dying. Listen to the names we hold before you… Hear us, O God. And the congregation answers:...
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I’ve watched you trying to teach and you are really not very good at what you do
This is from an essay by Kim Stafford about success and failure: Some years ago, during a graduate-level writing workshop on a cold November night, a student asked me at the break if she could talk...
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One Day at a Time by Evan Kingston (Guest Post)
This Series is about the challenges writers face while working a day job and trying to make it as a writer. Today’s post is from Evan Kingston. He lives in St. Paul, MN. He runs the frozen department...
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One of the cool things about being me is that I have a lot of really cool...
Strangely enough, a lot of my friends are coming out with their own books. I’ll share a few now and some more later. I really have been searching for a book like this for a long time. Go here to read a...
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Creativity Series: “Three-Part Harmony” by Nancy Nordenson
I. In the beginning, you have an image, a question, a word that won’t leave you alone. It keeps coming back. Knock, knock; here it is again. You pull out a notebook and make a note. A day or two later...
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