Guest Post: Moving On after Moving In
Please welcome my friend Maggie Wallem Rowe; this guest post is an excerpt from her new book, This Life We Share: 52 Reflections on Journeying Well with God and Others, which released May 5, 2020.
Make a Difference, Make Stuff
Recently, I’ve listened to a couple of interviews with Ryan and Amy Green, creators of the video game “That Dragon Cancer.” Their son Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer when he was 1. The Greens began working on the game while he was still alive, hoping he might make it, and then adapted it after he didn’t.
In Your Own Words: Donna Falcone – Surrender
surrender – verb | \sə-ˈren-dər\ : to agree to stop fighting, hiding, resisting, etc., because you know that you will not win or succeed : to give the control or use of (something) to someone else : to allow something (such as a habit or desire) to influence or...
5 Steps to Make a Sentence Curve (or Vary Your Sentence Length)
Nowadays I’m an editor, but my formal education is in engineering. You could call it “leftover occupational hazard” when a former engineer thinks about editing and ends up making a graph, a plot, a sentence curve. curve – noun \ˈkərv\ a curved line on a graph that...
5 Strategies for Prolific Reading
In the past week, I’ve read a biography of Gino Bartoli, the Italian cycling champion; two novellas by noir detective writer Dashiell Hammett; three books of poetry; a children’s novel; and a book about a mission project in Uganda. It was a slow week for reading. My...
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