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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Center of the Universe: Non-Speaking Autistic Poet Hannah Emerson’s Extraordinary Poem About How to Be Reborn Each Day
Here’s the link to this article. BY MARIA POPOVA In their strange cosmogony predating Copernicus by two millennia, the ancient Greek scientific sect of the Pythagoreans placed at…
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I’ve Written Three Books On How To Honestly Seek the Truth
Here’s the link to this article. By John W. Loftus at 11/02/2023 [First Published August 2022] I’ve written three books to educate believers on how to honestly seek the truth and…
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Waking Up 11/07/23
Daily Meditation Begin Again Understand the benefits of starting fresh in each moment. *** For more information, click here.
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The Boaz Scorekeeper–Chapter 23
The Boaz Scorekeeper, written in 2017, is my second novel. I’ll post it, a chapter a day, over the next few weeks. When Karla, Lewis, and I moved…
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11/06/23 Biking & Listening
Here’s today’s bike ride. Why I ride Biking is something I both love and hate. The conflicting emotions arise from the undeniable physical effort it demands. However, this…
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Let There Always Be Light: Dark Matter and the Mystery of Our Mortal Stardust (Patti Smith Reads Rebecca Elson)
Here’s the link to this article. BY MARIA POPOVA This is the fourth of nine installments in the animated interlude season of The Universe in Verse in collaboration with On Being,…
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Waking Up 11/06/23
Daily Meditation Mental Training Learn how it’s possible to improve the quality of your mind through meditation. *** For more information, click here.
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Trump and ‘our religion’ demonstrate evangelicals’ ongoing endgame crisis
Here’s the link to this article. Donald Trump knows how to get white evangelicals all het up. by CAPTAIN CASSIDY OCT 31, 2023 Overview: In recent months, Donald Trump…
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The Boaz Scorekeeper–Chapter 22
The Boaz Scorekeeper, written in 2017, is my second novel. I’ll post it, a chapter a day, over the next few weeks. We put our furniture and other…
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11/05/23 Biking & Listening
Here’s today’s bike ride. Why I ride Biking is something I both love and hate. The conflicting emotions arise from the undeniable physical effort it demands. However, this…
Richard L. Fricks 