For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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Science of Genesis Paradise Lost – Part 7 Obituary Column
Here’s the link to this article. May 13, 2023 by ANGELA ACKERMAN 1 Comment In 1959, Carl Jung first popularized the idea of archetypes—”universal images that have existed since the remotest times.”…
Here’s the link to this article. By David Madison, 04/14/23. And the Christian bad habit of being OKAY with it On Saturday, 10 June 1944—four days after the Allied…
Here’s the link to this article. “These are hours of exquisite pain; thank Heaven this particular pang comes to us but once.” BY MARIA POPOVA “Every man or…
Richard L. Fricks 