Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Failing to Act is Not an Option
“The danger was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothing.”
–Montaigne
Not one of us was inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas the day the gunman shot and killed nineteen young students and two teachers. What happened and why are still under investigation by the authorities, who will hopefully get to the bottom of it.
I will say this: I don’t believe those law enforcement officers or their commander got up that morning and went to work […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why I Write
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences, and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
–Annie Proulx
First, an admission. Writers write for their readers, not themselves; hence, I’m violating that dictum today. Count this as one of those “better to ask for forgiveness than permission” moments. A thousand pardons.
I just returned from five days at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What on Earth Are We To Do?
“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
–Mordecai, speaking to Esther (Esther 4:14; NIV)
When this posts, I’ll be away at a writers conference, so I was going to explain why I write; however, that topic sank in importance at such a time as […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Roe, and the Way It’s Resolved, Matter
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.'”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ( from his “I Have a Dream” speech; August 28, 1963)
We all knew the Supremes would issue a ruling on Mississippi’s abortion case in early summer, but little did we know someone would commit the unprecedented act of leaking the draft of that […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Failing to Act is Not an Option
“The danger was not that I should do ill, but that I should do nothing.”
–Montaigne
Not one of us was inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas the day the gunman shot and killed nineteen young students and two teachers. What happened and why are still under investigation by the authorities, who will hopefully get to the bottom of it.
I will say this: I don’t believe those law enforcement officers or their commander got up that morning and went to work […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why I Write
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences, and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
–Annie Proulx
First, an admission. Writers write for their readers, not themselves; hence, I’m violating that dictum today. Count this as one of those “better to ask for forgiveness than permission” moments. A thousand pardons.
I just returned from five days at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What on Earth Are We To Do?
“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
–Mordecai, speaking to Esther (Esther 4:14; NIV)
When this posts, I’ll be away at a writers conference, so I was going to explain why I write; however, that topic sank in importance at such a time as […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Why Roe, and the Way It’s Resolved, Matter
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.'”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ( from his “I Have a Dream” speech; August 28, 1963)
We all knew the Supremes would issue a ruling on Mississippi’s abortion case in early summer, but little did we know someone would commit the unprecedented act of leaking the draft of that […]