Did He Know? Did We Know? (For farmer Gajendra Singh who hanged himself in 2015, and for the six farmers of Mandsaur, India, killed by the police...
“Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.”
—John Burroughs
LET THERE BE
LIGHT
TOPICS
Pursuit of Meaning, from intangible to scientific.
- Spiritual Writing
- Sermons
- Biblical
- Wellness
- New Age
- Scientific Writing
- Classics: Blake, Milton, John Donne, etc.
- Myths and Totems
- Philosophical Underpinnings
AND STILL WE RISE
Hearing stories recently from so many young black men and women picked at emotional scabs from invisible wounds accrued over the years. We — meaning...
How to Put on Your Big Girl Panties for the Pandemic
So, I’ve been traveling in a pandemic for eight months because this was the year to write full-time and finally leave America with Trump behind....
Humanity’s Super Power – Part I
Writers at Large (W@L) came to me by climbing through the basement window—not walking through the front door. Three highly unlikely, unrelated,...
Turning Point
Many years ago when I was in college, I took a theology course on Spirituality. The professor, Fr. Gibbons, was also a columnist for a Catholic...
OLD ARGUMENTS, WON AND LOST
My husband has always had ideas—lots of ideas. He’s relentlessly curious, willing to pursue any cockamamie theory that intrigues him. These...
The Ineffability of a Hug
BEHIND THE SCENES: SETTING: This morning, 6:30. Jan is sitting at her computer. Steve walks in with a cup of coffee. STEVE: Are you going to...
Of Cattle Crossings, Barbed Wire, and Cuddle Corners
An excerpt from a memoir on grief, addiction, and love I really was a devoted wife. I was called that in a proclamation about my husband’s life from...
(Call Me) Robin
NCTE blogger, Millie Davis, recently invited writers to explore the topic: "Writers Riffing on Why Books Save Lives,”...
LIFE Coach: A Literary Exchange Between NICK CARBÓ and RICK MOODY
This stirring exchange between two gifted wordsmiths, one a poet and the other a novelist, shows how the power of language can easily usher a centuries-old epistolary style into the digital age with intimacy and grace.
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