Changes I’ve been thinking about … do you have an opinion?
In September of 2011, I laid down my red pen. After nine years teaching English and writing to high schoolers, it felt a little dramatic . . . like a sheriff turning in his badge and riding into the sunset to see what the open plains still held for him...or her. =)
I headed for the quieter (well, theoretically quieter) life of writing at home. I already freelance for some media and event companies. And mostly, let's be serious, I devote my life to serving the Emperor.
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Someone Much Bigger And Greater Than You Is With You
A while back, I interviewed Donald Miller about the journey behind the Blue Like Jazz movie.
A lot of the conversation was quirky and awkward . . . which I would happily blame on Don except that I'm pretty sure my idiosyncrasies strangled any normalcy from the call the moment I said hello.
It just so happened Don phoned just as I pulled up to a strange, remote lakeside cabin I had never been to. Literally the phone rang the second my wheels touched the gravel of the driveway.
I ...