And May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Long before the sun spilled its color over the fields of winter wheat, I hit the road running. I live in an area swallowed by farmland, by cedar swamps, by woods choked… Read More
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Writing Longhand: Why It Deserves Your Attention Again [Part II]
On Monday I listed a few reasons on how returning to longhand could improve your art. I promise you, it’s a long way from elementary cursive and college blue books. If you’re still… Read More
Writing Longhand: Why It Deserves Your Attention Again [Part I]
At ten years old, I owned a library of “novels” I’d penned in marbled composition books. The handwriting looped and too large for the lines, crowded out by doodles in the margins.… Read More
How to Be Hungry [Part II]
Hunger rarely has to do with food. We hear it all the time in music, in literature, in conversations. She hungers for love, he hungers for purpose, they hunger for God. We hunger for so much in… Read More
The Biggest Threat to Our Art
We blame it on the critics, on our lack of time and our myriad of responsibilities, on the deaf ears of the muses, on Twitter, on Pinterest and all those other social distractions.… Read More
Speak Up: Finding that Tongue of Yours
There are days when I feel like I’m standing at the foot of the Tower of Babel. I sit still and listen, nod my head in the socially accepted manner of feedback, and… Read More
Coffee Shop Blues
As I write this, I’m tucked into the corner of a coffeehouse, elbows on the table, sleeves pulled up, my right shoulder gently grazing a display of cakes, white icing piped along in… Read More
Art, Life, and Frederick the Mouse: Savoring Moments
Back when I still wore denim jumpers and frilly socks, back when I still drank chocolate milk every morning while sitting in my uncle’s lap at the kitchen table, my mother read to… Read More
The Toxicity of Doubt
Worry is a toxin. It infects the mind, the heart, the soul, and then it spreads to the rest of the body. I’ve never thought of myself as much of a worrier. I’m… Read More
How Shakespeare and Woody Allen Can Kill an Evening
Last night – against my better judgment – I indulged in a movie with dinner, watching Woody Allen‘s 2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. I paid no attention to the… Read More
