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New Beginnings

As the calendar turns to 2014, and as I launch my new website and blog, I find myself thinking about new beginnings and my plans for the coming year. One of my big plans is to release my debut novel,...

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A Genuine Approximation

“You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and...

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True Confessions of a Non-Mountain-Climber

Denali Base Camp, May 2011   Last week I wrote about the fear of Mom reading my work. This week I’ll take on another population of readers who worry me. Mountain climbers. I once read somewhere that...

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Christianity, Cancer, and Criticism

Ten years ago, I wrote the first draft of my first (and still unpublished) novel. At the recommendation of numerous writing instructors, I joined a writing group in my community to have my work...

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If Carl Sagan Was Right

I admit it. I’m not always grateful. It’s not that I’m ungrateful. It’s that I frequently forget to feel gratitude, the same way I frequently forget to keep in touch with my long-distance friends. My...

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18 Wisdoms about Writing, Balance, and Life

I’ve arrived at a funny place as I try to balance my writing life with my other life. On the one hand, I’m at a place where I can finally experience the ahhhh! of sweet peace. In college I held...

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Directionally challenged?

It’s September, that time of year when schoolchildren are writing about what they did for their summer vacations. One of my highlights was visiting Mt. Rainier last month. I’d been there before but...

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