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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My next biking book: Charles and Emma
Abstract from Amazon: Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of…
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Book I want to read
Abstract from Amazon: The God of classical theism, that which Jonathan MS Pearce calls “OmniGod”, is in the crosshairs in the collection of arguments against such a god’s…
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Mental training by Sam Harris
I encourage you to listen to this short recording. click here.
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My reading–The Rooster Bar
Great book from my favorite fiction author. I confess, this time, my second ‘reading,’ I listened to the audio version while riding my bike–took a couple of weeks…
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My reading–God Is Just a Word
Well written little book. Read it, thinking like a scientist and not a preacher, prosecutor, or politician. Abstract from Amazon Religion can be a very negative force in…
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Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
Why read? I encourage you to take time to read these powerful, awe-inspiring words from Maria Popova’s site, The Marginalian. Here is the link to today’s article. “Truth…
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Anaïs Nin on How Reading Awakens Us from the Slumber of Almost-Living
Why read? I encourage you to take time to read these powerful, awe-inspiring words from Maria Popova’s site, The Marginalian. Here is the link to today’s article. “It…
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Can Goodness Win? George Saunders on Writing, the Artist’s Task, and the Importance of Living with Opposing Truths
I encourage you read these powerful, awe-inspiring words from Maria Popova’s wonderful collection, Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. Here is the link to…
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Elizabeth Alexander on Writing, the Ethic of Love, Language as a Vehicle for the Self, and the Inherent Poetry of Personhood
I encourage you read these powerful, awe-inspiring words from Maria Popova’s wonderful collection, Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. Here is the link to…
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Alison Bechdel on Writing, Therapy, Self-Doubt, and How the Messiness of Life Feeds the Creative Conscience
I encourage you read these powerful, awe-inspiring words from Maria Popova’s wonderful collection, Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. Here is the link to…
Richard L. Fricks 