Call me a romantic, but I believe everyone has a novel just waiting to bust out of them. What keeps most of us from creating well-written stories is that
we don’t practice enough,
we don’t know our own voice,
and we aren’t willing to tell the truth. Continue reading “Don’t Let NaNoWriMo Mess With Your Mojo”
I feel privileged to know Janet and am thrilled that her story, Because I Can, is finally available in print. Join me in welcoming her to the blog, and if you have any questions for Janet feel free to ask in the comments section below. Continue reading “Six Questions With Author Janet Oberholtzer”
As my children grow older, I’m forced to confront something terrifying: I will not always be able to protect them myself. I can try to make good decisions about who I let them spend time with and where they go. I can attempt to teach them about the dangers of the world. I can do a lot.
But I can’t be with them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Continue reading “A Knee-Jerk Reaction to Joe Paterno, Penn State, and Protecting Children”
Picture this: a city so evil that the one in charge calls together a group of executioners to wipe out the population.
But in the midst of these men, “each with a weapon for slaughter in his hand,” is another man, one clothed in linen with a writing case at his side. This man is told to go throughout the city and mark those who mourn over the evil being done. After he walks out, the executions are told to follow him and kill everyone, “but touch no one who has the mark.”
Scary stuff. The level of violence reminds me of the Kill Bill movies. But it’s not a Hollywood script – it’s a vision straight from the Bible: Ezekiel 9. Continue reading “Why Jesus Never Spoke Without Telling Stories”
When the last James Bond movie came out in 2008, it brought in over $70 million during the first weekend. They started shooting the next Bond movie on Thursday.
Just beside that on CNN.com was an article handing out Thanksgiving tips: your meal should include one pound of turkey, a half pound of potatoes, one sweet potato, one cup of vegetables, and one pound of ice…per person.
Drowning somewhere on their busy home page was an article I nearly missed: “Refugees Face Organ Theft in Sinai.”
Organ theft. Continue reading “James Bond, Thanksgiving, and Having Your Kidneys Stolen”
