I have this very bad philosophical habit of picking up a lot of my catch phrases from song lyrics. Fortunately, I have pretty solid songs with philosophically and theologically stable ideas that I am usually singing or listening to. One of the things that irks me, and my wife Betsy, is the changing of song … Continue reading (almost) never change song lyrics
Category: Writing
Weather Wether Whether
Definition of weather 1: the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness 2: state or vicissitude of life or fortune 3: disagreeable atmospheric conditions: such as a : rain, storm b : cold air with dampness 4: weathering — to weather : in the direction from which the wind is blowing Definition of wether : a male … Continue reading Weather Wether Whether
The Book Ballot
Today the Avondale United Methodist Church Book Club discussed The Light Between Oceans, a first novel by M. L. Stedman. But I'm not going to talk about that. We also received our book ballot for the upcoming 12 month cycle. This process is a uniquely "democratic" means of choosing what we read each year. Everyone who … Continue reading The Book Ballot
Blog Schedule: Sabbatical Update
Greetings! Those of you who have followed this blog, for various reasons, may have seen the post I did in April 2016 when I established a regular schedule for the postings on various days of the week. You may also have noticed that my daily posting fell apart this February due to health and other … Continue reading Blog Schedule: Sabbatical Update
A bit of poetry
(Note: it has been awhile since I've pulled up my old poetry, so here is another one. This was during my year as editor of the Houghton Star student newspaper at Houghton College, during the last year that the old Compugraphic machines were used instead of the new Macintosh computers that they got the next … Continue reading A bit of poetry
God’s Secretaries — a Review
Today the Avondale United Methodist Church Book Club discussed God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, by Adam Nicolson. We agreed it the reading could sometime be tedious, but that it was a book well worth reading. The King James Bible happened during the reign of King James (duh), right after the Elizabethan … Continue reading God’s Secretaries — a Review
A quick writing tutorial
Well, back to class now. Fortunately for many of you, this class doesn't have all those textbooks with their wonderful chapters that I can summarize. This is a practicum class where we will practice writing and doing audio/visual website/blog creation. So we get wonderful things like a "twenty most-common errors" writing tutorial from Dartmouth. I … Continue reading A quick writing tutorial
A Focus on Focus
This post is intended to go up at the very beginning of the new year. Don't mistake it for anything like a New Year's Resolution: I have never been one for setting resolutions (If you check the blog from January 1, 2014, you will see that is an exact quote). I said last year on … Continue reading A Focus on Focus
Witchfinder — the multi-tasking mind of the writer
(This is part five of a blog series on the discussion between Sarah A. Hoyt and the Avondale United Methodist Church Book Club about Hoyt’s book Witchfinder, the art of writing, and what it is like to publish a book as both a traditional and “indie” author.) Mark W.: You mentioned that you read 2-3 … Continue reading Witchfinder — the multi-tasking mind of the writer
Witchfinder — indie publishing
(This is part four of a blog series on the discussion between Sarah A. Hoyt and the Avondale United Methodist Church Book Club about Hoyt’s book Witchfinder, the art of writing, and what it is like to publish a book as both a traditional and “indie” author. Sarah begins here by talking about putting up … Continue reading Witchfinder — indie publishing
At The Rainbow 