When I was fresh out of college (OK, when I was three months out of college, after a stint covering the Legislature for South Dakota Public Radio), I went to work for United Press International, which at the time was still a full-service wire service and able competitor to The Associated Press. After I think… Continue reading Thank you, United Press International
Category: Writing
Betsy-Tacy: Where Nothing Really Bad Can Happen
I knew I liked Lani Jordan the first time I met her, at the Pioneer Inn in Oshkosh, b’Gosh. But the friendship was cemented for keeps when I visited her house in Green Bay a few months later and saw Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace displayed prominently.
What’s Your Line?
I’m a big one for oohing and aahing over beautiful lines in books. Here are a few from books that had a big impact on me. What are yours? In this not-quite darkness, while the diesel breaks its heart more and more faintly on the mountain grade I lie wondering if I am man enough… Continue reading What’s Your Line?
The Novel Buds
There we were, at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, near the end of the 2005 St. Davids Christian Writers’ Conference. I think it was Michele Huey who was the first to be brave enough to say, “I want to write a novel.” Then Virelle Kidder said, “Me too.” And finally, I said, “I’ve got… Continue reading The Novel Buds