May 2010

The Yard Sale Tesseract

by Shawn May 31, 2010

We’re trying to sell all kinds of junk today in a yard sale outside my sister’s house: old shoes, striped mugs, a thirty year old food processor, baby clothes, and, among many other things, a kid’s riding toy that looks like a huge worm. It would appear there’s nothing you can’t sell. It’s kind of [...]

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Only Baby’s Cry, Right?

by Shawn May 28, 2010

This post is a continuation of a story I told Wednesday.  Click HERE to read that post first, if you’d like. ***** By Monday night I already had the new salary budgeted out.  By Tuesday I was looking at houses.  But Tuesday afternoon I got a phone call. “Hey, Shawn, about that second interview.  Look, [...]

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Fireside Writer’s Conference

by Shawn May 27, 2010

So I’ve been thinking through an idea and am ready to share the beginnings of it with you guys. I want to have a writer’s conference this fall in Gap, PA. So far I’ve lined up some great speakers: Andi Cumbo (professor, tutor, writer extraordinaire) to talk about the beauty and pain of honesty on [...]

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Talking In My Sleep

by Shawn May 26, 2010

This is the continuing story of my life last year and into the early part of 2010. ***** So anyway, it turns out my determination to not get a regular job lasted about four weeks.  By early January I seriously doubted my ability to make a living as a full-time writer.  I’d stare at the [...]

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Tuesday’s Top 10: Favorite Movies From My Childhood

by Shawn May 25, 2010

First of all, you should know: we’re making progress. The tension and conflict has finally become too great for just one blog to handle.  Check out last Friday’s post by Bruce Nuffer over at The House Studio, and see how our Top 10 Candy debate is continuing…ad infinitum…ad nauseum…ad every-latin-word-you-can-think-of-um. But it’s time to move [...]

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What’s the View Like?

by Shawn May 24, 2010

Last week in the comments section someone mentioned that they were following this blog from Poland.  Poland! That seems really far away. And it also got me wondering…where are all you folks checking in from?  So if you don’t mind, go down to the comments section of the blog and answer three questions: 1) your [...]

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“I Gain Nothing”

by Shawn May 21, 2010

When I arrived as a freshman at Messiah College and endured my first preseason for the soccer team, I couldn’t help but notice this guy Peter Greer.  First of all, he was one of the nicest people I had ever met, even to me, an underclassman. Second of all, and I know this goes against [...]

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