Words of Redemption

About two years ago, I stumbled across Zimbio, a wikizine site, in my web wanderings, created an account and some content, then promptly forgot the site existed when another shiny new Web 2.0 bauble came along for me to chase down the street1.
Fast forward to three weeks ago, when LL Barkat posted about some social [...]

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One of the nice things about having twelve years worth of journals lying around is that I have a near-limitless reserve of material to post and make fun of when I have nothing better to blog.
Today, I have nothing better to blog.
Last night, I found myself once again thumbing through my first journal. I tend [...]

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In my post from yesterday, Heather and L shared their thoughts on why they write. L’s comment in particular inspired me to write this follow-up. She says:
I write to clear my head or work out my mind. I write because I have something that I have to let out of me. I write because I [...]

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Is it this?
“Fortune and Glory” - Short Round
I hope not, but I suppose for more than a few people it is one or both of those things. I’ve found myself driven to hope and dream for both before. There’s an oft-referenced statistic that claims 80% of Americans believe that one day they will write a [...]

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“You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”
- Ernest Hemingway

I stumbled across this quote while on a non-writing tangent today. I was actually deep [...]

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A few weeks ago, I plugged the brand new Compassion Blog. If you haven’t been following yet, the last couple of weeks have featured great posts on the Uganda Blog trip that just wrapped up, as well as a series of posts from the eyes of Compassion Uganda staff. I would highly recommend all of [...]

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Want this button?Robin over at Pensieve has been doing a monthly poetry carnival for the past several months. Each month, she issues a theme and style, and gives us a couple of days to scamper off, write a poem, post it to our blogs, then share amongst ourselves on Thursday. As Robin says, it’s not [...]

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I want to wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day. But I especially want to wish Sarah, my wonderful wife, a very Happy Valentine’s Day.
A few days ago, I wrote in a post that I crave Sarah’s praise like the very air I breathe. One friend read that and seemed to take it as [...]

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Today, I finished the second draft of a short story I have been working on for about three weeks. I completed my edits this morning, and then sent copies of to a few carefully selected individuals guaranteed to tell me that this story is the best thing they have ever read1. This is the phase [...]

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So there are two spankin’ new blogs I must tell you about. And you should check these out as soon as possible. Now would be good…
The first is Compassion’s corporate blog, which just went live today. I’m personally quite excited about this blog and plan to follow it myself. There’s only one post to date, [...]

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