How to Like Your Essays More and More
Published at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Read and Respond: Reading for the Common Good
Reading, researching, and informing ourselves allow our actions to be more deliberate and less reactionary
A Few Good Books for the End of the Year
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of reading, especially in light of recent statistics that show the number of book readers is diminishing along with the number of young people who read for fun. I started a …
Read and Respond: Yes, Please
Over the years, as I’ve thought about what it means to have character and to be a person of integrity, the word I often use to describe how I want others to see me is this: predictable. Based on the ways they’ve seen me act and heard me talk in the past, I want people...
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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