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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The archive begins with the most recent writing. Use the numbered pages below to move backward through time.
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 28
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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The Marginalian: Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man
Here’s the link to this article. BY MARIA POPOVA Who are we when we, to borrow Hannah Arendt’s enduring words, “are together with no one but ourselves”? However much…
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Defend Democracy: A Little Civil Discourse
by Joyce Vance Here’s the link to this article. In the middle of all the high stakes political maneuvering going on in Washington, we shouldn’t overlook the importance…
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The God Illusion: What we learned from the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting
Here’s the link to this article. Most delegates still oppose women pastors, IVF is evil, and abuse reform can wait. But at least the new president doesn’t wear…
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Flash Fiction: Fences and Forgiveness
In the quiet suburb of Maplewood, the fences were high but the tensions were higher, especially between two neighbors: John Green and Rick Dale. Both had lived side…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 27
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 26
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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Snowflake Summaries–The Tangent Objective, by Lawrence Sanders
The primary aim of the “Snowflake Summaries” blog category is to showcase the creative writing of great authors. I use Randy Ingermanson’s ‘Snowflake’ method to create these summaries.…
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Novel Excerpts–The Boaz Schoolteacher, Chapter 25
The primary aim of the “Novel Excerpts” blog category is to showcase my creative writing, specifically from the novels I’ve written. Hopefully, these posts will provide a glimpse…
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The God Illusion: Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity
Richard L. Fricks 