Delicate balances aren’t exactly my forte. My personal style tends more toward Martin Luther’s metaphor: A drunkard who falls off the right side of the horse, staggers to his feet, and tries again to mount, only to overshoot the mark and topple off the horse’s left side. Still, even I know delicate balances are usually [...]
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Balancing Act
Posted in Communication, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Self-examination, Society, Writing, tagged balance, focus, grace, Writing, writing process on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Variety Is the Spice
Posted in Book Reviews, Communication, Fiction, Nonfiction, Self-examination, Writing, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Life, Pascal, Weil, Writing on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some books are a walk in the park. You go because it’s fun and entertaining, and because you just need to get away for a while. Lord knows, in today’s world we can all use some park time. Then you’ve got your sneaky books. They’re entertaining, too, but they’ve got ulterior motives: They want to [...]