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Voices Are Found
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been told the importance of finding one’s voice as a writer. Find your voice they say. then people will really hear you. or beat down your door. or will see the authentic you. I’ve always taken these instructions to heart. I’ve always tried. Always writing in…
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The Write Space
Where do you imagine yourself working? What does your workspace look like? What a question. I don’t know I thought. Since I was going to be a writer, I molded the space to my imagined perfect place. On the white paper I outlined a room with black ink. Spartan The room was empty. A desk.…
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I Write Because I Breathe
I have always been a writer. I haven’t always been a storyteller. In the 7th grade, I had to write a report for my Social Studies class. It was one of those reports that seemed to take forever to write: like a whole two or three pages. I was in the library looking through encyclopedias…
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How to Make a New Year’s Resolution Stick
Yesterday, I wrote a bummer of a piece telling you that you would most certainly fail. That great New Year’s resolution to lose weight or not eat chocolate? Sorry. You’ve already failed, you just might not know it yet. And that resolution to read everyday, that’s hanging by a thread. That was yesterday. Today I’m…
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Why Your New Year’s Resolution Is Bound to Fail
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If you are like the millions who do, you no doubt find that they are always harder than they seem. Looking back at the last few years, many of us recognize a pretty poor track record. Even the words “New Year’s resolution” conjures thoughts of failure and personal experiences…
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Revealed By the Light
This is our season of truth. Our season of light. It is casting candles in the dark corners we refuse to visit. It is making new plans and making changes we’ve been avoiding. It is ringing in the new year with an examined courage rather than willful ignorance.
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How To Not Change the World
Our Willful Ignorance of Self I once read that Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols approaches his day with this simple practice: he only looks in the mirror once. He gets up, prepares himself for the day, and spends the rest of the day believing he’s that guy in the mirror. Regardless of what life throws…
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The Miracle
The Nativity and the Christmas Truce Christmas | Luke 2:1-20 What Is and Isn’t There Have you ever noticed that a word is missing from the account of Jesus’s birth? There is no word telling exactly where Jesus is born. The word stable doesn’t appear, though most of us put him there in our minds.…
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