For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 Let’s face it writing can be a lonely venture. I mean you’re stuck all alone with your ideas, your characters, these worlds that live within you, and you’re desperately …
Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? Matthew 6:26 I am fairly new to fiction writing. For years I wrote poetry and studied with …
It was a sunny afternoon in Pittsburgh. I was sitting in my parked car just outside the music building. I was laid back in the driver’s seat, my foot hanging out the window, and looking up at the Cathedral of Learning across the street. I remember the diffused orange glint …
An unintelligible multitude, A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign. – W.H. Auden from “The Shield of Achilles” When I was in college studying literature I took a course on Shakespeare with Professor David Brumble. He is a brilliant professor who inspired …
