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This is what happened when my Labs chased cattle
We had two black labs growing up. They were dumb as rocks and chased after anything that moved: footballs, nerf guns, cars, leaves, deer, cats, shadows, and tails. The sheriff arrived at our doorstep...
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The Fear I’ll be exposed for who I really am
At least once a week I have this overwhelming feeling of mortification and I seriously consider deleting my entire internet presence and going off the grid. It’s a mixture of embarrassment and horror...
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Creativity Series: Chad Thomas Johnston: “When Work Begets Wonder”
Only a few more weeks until the end of the Creativity Series. I’ll be continuing the series in a mysterious, as of yet announced, way on Facebook. Go here to follow along with the future conversation...
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An Argument Against Andrew Peterson’s “Lesser Lights” and Tolkien’s...
C.S. Lewis once called myths lies and this riled up Tolkien so much he wrote a poem about myths and the creative act. In “Philomythus to Misomythus” (Myth Lover to Myth Hater) Tolkien calls all men...
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Creativity Series: David Clark “Writing and Remembering”
Learn more about the creativity series here. Like the series on Facebook. And listen to the podcast. Download: David-Clark.mp3 I sometimes wonder why I write or paint at all. This bewilderment grows...
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How does the Christian storyteller understand the mystery of evil?
Evil for the French novelist François Mauriac was necessary to tell stories of hope and love and redemption. Stories of childhood and innocence also required to be stories of evil and violence. But it...
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Why does it feel like I’m always failing?
It’s funny how one word can have so many connotations and mean a thousand different things to different people. Like the word blogging, or writing, or creativity, or baseball. When I think of baseball...
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Creativity takes Courage. Announcing the Creativity Series eBook
When I began this journey back in May, it started out as a selfish quest for an answer. I’d started writing my novel and kept running into the same roadblocks of fear: fear of failure, fear of wasting...
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The Thing-Ness of Peace
I began to wonder: why is peace so hard to think about? Or conversely, why is violence so easy? Margaret Paxson, an anthropologist, wrote a sort of prelude to her future book about peace, specifically...
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Creativity Series: “Three-Part Harmony” by Nancy Nordenson
I. In the beginning, you have an image, a question, a word that won’t leave you alone. It keeps coming back. Knock, knock; here it is again. You pull out a notebook and make a note. A day or two later...
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I didn’t want to go inside the room with the coffin
I stood outside the room with the coffin and was asked if I wanted to go inside. I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to see the body. I thought about my decision and hoped I wouldn’t later regret it, as...
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