History, Real Life, and Faith
The woman who teaches my exercise class had her eye on me yesterday. “You need to keep your mind engaged on what you’re doing here, not on what’s happening after you leave class,” she said. I laughed. I’m notorious for missing a step because while my body is dancing zumba, my mind is often elsewhere. I’ve written before about the…
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Are you on Goodreads? How do you use it? Does it feel like just one. more. social media thing to keep track of in your free time? Or is it a helpful tool? I’m of mixed mind, but I do use it in four ways: 1. As a research tool While I was working on my World War I novel,…
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God’s grace and the power of off-ensive prayer (like in football!) OR praying ahead of time.
How did you learn to pray? I learned from a Russian Jewish peasant named Tevye. I grew up in a household in which God and religious beliefs were not discussed. The church I attended as a child specialized in formalized prayer–and I learned those because I was interested in God. But I had questions about how to pray–the where and…
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We received an extraordinary gift recently: a writer’s dime. It came from our friend Bill who had given great thought into the gift. As a coin collector, he had heard a story and went in quest of the writer’s dime. When he found it, he brought it and the tale to us. A terrific gift. I wasn’t taking notes as he…
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I’m asked occasionally about the writing life and editors. Today I’m interviewing a friend from both worlds: Becky Miller. Becky Miller and I met ten years ago at Mount Hermon Christian Writer’s Conference when we were in the same critique group (facilitated by the wonderful Gayle Roper). Our eight-member critique group spent four days together discussing each others’ manuscripts–an exhilarating…
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