The Ernie Pyle Memorial Library Albuquerque, New Mexico A recently- discovered portrait of the famous WWII journalist Ernie Pyle is his last: a photograph taken just moments after his death. The body that housed all those words lies still and...
Where does my heart beat much of the time? In my family, in my writing, and in my Bible study and Representational Research. This last area basically involves the triadic structure of the Godhead, of reality (the part you see, the part you don’t see, and the links...
I love (and often mention) the generalization we can derive from Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 – where the lunch of a little boy could do the work of a man laboring for five months. Two completely incommensurate things, a small amount of bread and fish and the sweating...
One of the perks of having an always-active mind is that it is, well, always active. Case in point: One morning I awakened with a word on my mind. The word was Dothan. To my knowledge, I'd never spoken that name aloud. I had no idea where it came...
For literary geeks only: This is a chapter from the novel I am currently writing. It includes an ancient literary technique called chiasmus. The structure begins with, “I will tell you what helped me,” and the middle or turning point is “For a...
The Examiner recently interviewed me with the following questions: Q-How did you get started writing?A-Writing begins, I think, with the art of noticing. One of my earliest memories is this:I am standing at the end of a peach orchard in Farmington, New Mexico, in...
