Faith, Fiction, Friends

The downsizing of my workload is coming. In May, I retire from the day job. I’m a little on the early side, but it was just time to...

I’ve invented a word: “misculturalized.” It describes being born, raised and living in one culture when you’re probably better adapted ...

I’ve talked before about how my two novels, Dancing Priest and A Light Shining , came to be written. Inspired by a song, the story for...

Ask my wife this question: “Is your husband an extrovert or an introvert?” And she would say one of the following: “You mean th...

When did I first decide I was a writer? Perhaps it was when I was 10, and wrote a mystery story longhand. It might have been th...

The year 2013 was not the easiest for me or my family. My mother had to be moved from her home of 58 years to a retirement home, whic...

I started reading a novel recently where what mattered was being published. I stopped after four chapters. The writing was bad. What go...

In 2013, a study by three researchers at the University of Toronto suggested that people who read literary fiction are more comfortabl...

In On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life That Lasts , Ann Kroeker and Charity Craig ask this question: To what extant ...

I’ve been reading On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life That Lasts by Charity Craig and Ann Kroeker. I like this book...