Beware of Formulas
In the past year I’ve submitted some of my short fiction and essays to journals that have periodic competitions and claim to have the eyes and ears of agents and publishers. I’ve not won any prizes, not gained any contacts, but I’ve received a blizzard of emails offering seminars on how to whip my writing into shape. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Who Do You Follow?
It began with a single, soft note . . . a brief pause . . . and then a perfectly formed chord of four, six or even eight notes. And from that single chord a perfectly lovely melody was built, ebbing and flowing, rising and falling, drifting through the symphony hall and into the ears and down into the souls of all who were listening. It was moving and stirring. And it all began with a single, soft note. Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
Laughing Out Loud
Huh? What?!
I did a double take as we were singing in church. We were on the first verse of a hymn I don’t know when my eyes dropped down a line to the second verse and I saw “lol,” as in the digital-age texting acronym for, “laughing out loud.” Continue reading “Lenten Reflections”
