Monthly Archives: September 2018

Little Interview

This is a short post for today. 🙂 I trust you won’t mind. I had a little interview on KFUO about my recent article in the Lutheran Witness on vocation and multitasking.Figured maybe that’s reason enough to have a little shameless self-promotion. ha ha haa

By the way, I really like it when I sound prolific. Makes me want to be even more so!

 

 

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Turtles

There are so many weird hangups in a writer’s life. Am I wrong? For instance, I keep stalling on my poetry project because I keep writing poetry. And, since I’m self-publishing, who’s to say when I should cut myself off?! Even weirder, my latest writing dilemma has to do with turtles.

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Emerging Writers

I recently heard that Rebecca Lemke was recently published so I had to find out more. Turns out that there is a series of Emerging Writer anthologies coming out, including Oklahoma’s Emerging Writers: An Anthologyand I can’t help but think that’s a pretty cool thing!

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Quick Amazon Deal

I interrupt my regularly scheduled posts to bring you a Quick Amazon Deal.

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Joy

I received a great pick me up in addition to all of God’s other gifts in church yesterday. Now, I have a pretty big family, but the kiddos happened to have scattered, sitting some here, others there. I was holding Joy, my friend/organist’s toddler. I love Joy. And, she gave me great joy in an unexpected way.

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Bless This Mess

Today’s post is a review on Lutheran Lori Ehlke‘s first book, as author and illustrator no less (!), Bless This MessTo sum up briefly, it blessed this mess, which is me.

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Come in and Launch?

Another Lutheran author has opened enrollment into his launch team! Rev. Tyrel Bramwell, author of The Gift and the Defender and Finding the Truth in Story: Grimm’s Fiary Tales, Vol. 1has two books nearing release. Want to “come in and launch” Come in, We are Closed, which tackles the topic and tensions of closed Communion?

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Endorsing Problem

I don’t remember what I was doing yesterday, but it occurred to me that our country—modern age? zeitgeist?—has an endorsing problem exacerbated by its weird relationship with “banning.”

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Apples are Apples

Not everyone likes poetry and that is fine. At the same time, maybe we can admit that we often like to read rhyming scripts to our kiddos. We like how little lessons can seem a little more learnable. Now, poetry is not always for the sake of learning. Self-expression is the big genre these days, but that is far from refuting poetry as an educational tool. And, as a tool, it can plant a seed, hack a weed, or dig down deep. But, what does that have to do with apples?

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Enjoyable

Enjoyable. We want what we write to be enjoyable, so what, exactly, does that mean?

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