"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina (transl....

A novel's opening line. I've never been happy with mine. And so I've been reworking the opening scene to make it better. How do I improve...

The Droste Effect. Are you familiar with it? According to wise-geek.com, the Droste Effect is, "a special type of visual effect which is...

Today, I read a devotional I'd written in January 2020. Looking back at 2019. Wondering what 2020 would bring. What stood out to me were...

That fall, in a fiction-writing course, I wrote the first five chapters of a novel.

Six years ago our adult son became someone else. Not always. Just when he went manic. It took two years before he was properly diagnosed:...

Ramos Island, The Philippines, 1992-1994: The first house Doug and I owned.

Spirit-inspired thoughts when I listen in the silence and live in the present risenness of Jesus. Silence Silence seems to be a foreign...

Snippets of life as a novelist working toward publishing my first novel. I have been working on a novel titled Rewriting Adam for the...