Books

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(This is the seventh article in a series recounting my experiences in publishing my next book. You can find the rest under the “Publishing a Book Series” tag.) Just about all my book titles have two things in common: there was another “working title” before it and I came up with the final title while in

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“Inside the God Jar”

“You should publish this.” These are the words that became the touchstone for the idea of a new book. For several years people have asked me to write a biography but that has never seemed to be the right way to go. However, when a friend who reads some of my writing every month urged

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Too Good of a Story

This is just too good of a story not to tell. It’s a story about how God answers the unasked prayers we never think to pray in shocking ways. I’m still grinning. The story starts a week ago on my birthday. I was meeting up with my mom to celebrate when she told me about

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Monster Mama

One of my favorite parts of spending time at my friend’s library is to hear her read stories to the kids. Today while I was substituting for her assistant, she read “Monster Mamma” to the first and second graders complete with voices and lots of color in the telling. I took my work out in

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Bookshelves

What a night. We had tap rehearsal this afternoon in preparation for the show on Sunday. Then I came home, cleaned up, and headed out to an artist open house hosted by my friend Kathy with whom I acted in “Death of a Salesman”. The artist was a spiritual impressionist and I enjoyed the depth

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