Tag: writing
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The Criminal on the Cross
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It’s Holy Week. Yesterday in church they read the Passion. As I was sitting there playing with my palm, trying to turn it into a cross, I thought of something new. When the criminal on the cross next to Jesus says to him “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself…
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Dad
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“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman It’s Father’s Day. It’s a tough one for me. My dad died 13 years ago. I woke up and read my email from…
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Write it down
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On this day, June 14th, in 1942, Anne Frank began to keep her diary. It was one month before she and her family went into hiding. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the…