Category: Writing Life
What Students Teach
I am deeply thankful for the hospitality that was shown to me last week by the Department of Humanities and the highly engaging faculty at…
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On Reading at Morgan
In Morgan Library, on the campus of Grace College, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I spent hours among the periodicals, specifically the literary…
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A Change in Setting Revealed
In November I experienced A Change in Setting. I packed up my writing space––my table and chair, fifty boxes of books (and their bookcases), a…
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That Flash of Delight
Writing is a slow-going effort. It’s a solitary and troublesome venture. What keeps a writer coming back to his chair day after day? There are…
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My First Reader
My writing, when first born, is a very ugly baby. Seriously. You don’t see the first draft of anything. If you did you would say,…
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