Writing Life Archives

How to Like a Do-Gooder–in Spite of Yourself

How do you react to a do-gooder? I spent many hours during the end of the last century, hunched in…
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Let’s put a story to a face. Take a look at the woman to the left. What color is her…
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Like many, I grew up on sanitized versions of prisoner of war (POW) camps made famous by movies such as…
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When you’re writing a novel, sometimes you need to call the vet. At least, that was true of me. The…
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What if the point of our spiritual lives IS to be interrupted?

What sort of gambling took place during the American Civil War?