Writing Life Archives

An Amateur, Passion and the Civil War

The word amateur comes from the Latin base, amator, to love. We’ve taken that word and turned it into a…
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Our young friend Composer David Voss, composed an Easter cantata this year. We had a long conversation about how he…
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Who even has a phone book anymore? Ancestry.com I just spent a Friday night turning the cyber-pages of the London…
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What happens when a novelist writes a biography? I can’t speak for other biographers or novelists, I can only describe…
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We all have favorite lines–phrases–that haunt us or echo in our mind. I’m recounting some of mine today and why…
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I’m a biographer. Such a strange word and one I wasn’t expecting and yet, I like it. It took me…
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