A few days ago I was sitting in faculty meeting, where our University President Eric Anderson was talking about a session that he attended at the World Headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists in Silver Spring, Maryland. One of the items under discussion at that meeting in Maryland was a proposal to print 50 million copies of … More When Books Won’t Work
It’s me again, Margaret. There’s nothing like having a bone to pick to rev up the blogging juices again. I know; I’ve been a bad, bad boy–faul, the Austrians would say–lazy. But I have every excuse in the book. Just ask me. I write books. But something a student said last week rankled me to … More Another bone to pick….
Before the new year was born, I was inspired to turn over a new leaf and get serious about my writing. I was going to have a meaningful presence on Facebook and Twitter. I was going to write a daily (daily!) blog. I was going to finish up my projects that lie waiting my resolution. … More So much for New Year’s Resolutions….
One of the most discouraging things I ever read while learning to write was the common statement: “You have to write every day to be able to call yourself a writer.” I’ve heard other variations of this. I heard someone else say, “You have to have written a million words before you can be called … More One million words
Funny how people can get emotional about New Year’s Resolutions. I asked friends on Facebook if they had thought about New Year’s Resolutions for 2011, and I got several responses, almost all of them negative. “Don’t do it,” one said. “They never work.” I beg to differ. A New Year is marked because it signals … More A Writer’s Resolution for 2011
This is my third NaNoWriMo…or at least it’s supposed to be. I’m having second thoughts. I really want to do it; I really need to do it. I have encouraged others to do it. But I don’t know what I would write. And there’s the other small problem of being overwhelmed at work. Oh, sure, … More Three days…and I haven’t a clue
I am just about as busy as I have ever been. Teaching two classes, editing an online newspaper and an alumni magazine, serving as University webmaster, and now expected to conduct writing workshops at academies as recruitment trips. I long for the days when all I had to do was teach four classes. Was there … More Not for the faint of heart? More like, not for the sane.
I still remember flying back from my mother’s funeral three years ago. My parents were in love for 42 years and yet were like peas and cucumbers–different as night and day. When retirement came, Dad just wanted a piece of land where he could farm and build things and hole up to read Zane Grey … More Do what you love, and #@$%^ the rest
It’s a sobering thought, being human. Too often we get caught up in the trap of being young and feeling invulnerable. Invincible. Impervious to all bad things. I went from 1970 to 2009 with nary a hiccup other than the occasional visit to the ER for things like metal springs through fingers, starters falling on … More There and back again
Hello friends…..been a month of Sundays since I frequented my writing blog. But I guess that says something about how my life is going these days. I am, as you know, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde…Hyde of course being my writing self. But I found an excuse to drop a quick line. I got a … More I got a gimmee!
The Great Adventure 