Category: Writing Life

  • Because He Deserves a Post

    I was jealous of Rudy’s freedom to sleep as much as he wished. Even given his repetitive diet and lack of a love life, I…

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  • 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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