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Have a Little Faith
Listening to the Easter sermon yesterday, something struck me for the first time. After Jesus had been placed in the tomb, the chief priests and Pharisees asked Pilate to post a guard there because they knew Jesus claimed he would rise from the dead on the third day....
Good Friday
What's good about it? That's what I used to think. The day Christ was crucified. The day he was nailed to a cross and mocked, ridiculed and tortured. The day the most wonderful person to ever live died. Good? C'mon. But that was before. Now I live in the "after." The...
Holy Week – Maundy Thursday
Tomorrow is Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday--the day we commemorate Christ's Last Supper. There's a scene in my book where the main character comes to understand what communion is all about for the first time. Ella's taken the bread and the cup a hundred times...
Like Little Children
Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. The service at my church featured our children coming down the aisle waving palm branches and then doing a series of songs and readings. It was alternately moving and, well, funny. Three of the children performed...
The measure of success . . .
I'm currently reading Water for Elephants and I have mixed feelings about it. I think it's a well-crafted story, but the sex scenes and violence bother me. They're probably true to the time and the setting, I just don't like 'em. I also have a VERY hard time reading...
The Tao of Parallel Parking
So I was trying to parallel park in town the other day and it occurred to me that I approach publishing the same way I do parking in a tight spot on the side of the street. I often flub it, but I always go in thinking I'll do it right. I can parallel park, but I often...
Inviting Criticism
So, generally speaking, you probably don't walk up to strangers and say, "Can you tell me what you'd change about my clothes?" Or "How would you improve my personality?" Well, it feels about the same to send the first chapter of my book out to a group of 200+...
Ars Poetica
Another poem in honor of National Poetry Month. If I had to pick a favorite poem, this might be it. There are quite a few I really love, but this one is the quintessence of poetry. Good poetry usually makes me want to sit down and write--this poem makes me want to sit...
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