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My Word of the Week: Make

by Charity Singleton Craig | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, My Word of the Week

In Our Only World, Wendell Berry talks about making things in his essay, “Local Economies to Save the Land and the People.” As usual, Wendell is talking about much more than just the stuff we create, but this one point stood out to me as I thought about how little I actually make each day.

A Few Good Books for the End of the Year

by Charity Singleton Craig | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog

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 …

My Word of the Week: Input

by Charity Singleton Craig | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog, My Word of the Week

input – noun | in·put | \ˈin-ˌpu̇t\ : advice or opinions that help someone make a decision : information that is put into a computer : something (such as power or energy) that is put into a machine or system I knew I needed a vacation long before we loaded our...

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...

Heroes for the Ages

by Charity Singleton Craig | Sep 21, 2013 | Archived Blog Posts

I was 23. A few weeks earlier, I had quit the newspaper reporting job I had been dreaming about for years, and declared my intent to make a real go at more creative writing, beginning with . . . well, I wasn’t exactly sure. But I had moved four states away from my...