Poetry | Charity Singleton Craig

Make a Difference, Make Stuff

by Guest User | Apr 14, 2016 | Blog, Writing

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.

Read and Respond: Losing Our Appetite for Debate and Standing by Words

by Charity Singleton Craig | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog, Read and Respond

The current issue of The Atlantic lists a series of “ideas of the year,” or “intellectual trends that, for better or for worse, are informing the national conversation and shaping our lives.” Some of them are funny: “old people are cool” or “the long national night of...

Community Reading Day: The Tiger’s Glove

by Charity Singleton Craig | Mar 20, 2015 | Blog

“Who likes to read?” I asked the group of 20-some second graders sitting on the floor around my legs. I was perched on a plastic and metal kid-sized chair pulled from the table where one of the children usually sits. I was visiting the class as a community reader,...

In Your Own Words: Elizabeth W. Marshall – Restoration

by Guest User | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, In Your Own Words

res·to·ra·tion – noun \ˌres-tə-ˈrā-shən\ : the act or process of returning something to its original condition by repairing it, cleaning it, etc. : the act of bringing back something that existed before : the act of returning something that was stolen or taken...

The Novelist

by Charity Singleton Craig | Sep 17, 2012 | Archived Blog Posts

The Novelist is a work of fiction L.L. Barkat had to write.

This story about a woman attempting to write a work of fiction feels like memoir, if you know L.L. personally, as I do, or if you have read either of her spiritual memoirs, Stone Crossings or God in the Yard. “Laura” from fiction is a copy writer …