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The Writer – ATCL

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Last month, I got to spend a few hours with one of my writing mentors, an author whose work I love.

Since then, she’s continued publishing her usual truthful, pointed, eloquent posts and commentaries. She caught a lot of heat over one in particular, an article for CNN which garnered her over 5000 mostly-nasty messages.

Just another day at the office, for her.

This post was originally published on All The Church Ladies, a website which has closed. I am in the process of moving all my ATCL posts back over here.

Awesometown!

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Clearly, my PR people deserve a raise.

A while back, I stumbled upon a blog created by a fantastic guy named Knox McCoy (he swears that’s his actual name, although I still have my doubts, because nobody’s parents are that cool.)

The blog is great: funny, clever, interesting. Knox marries pop-culture and Christianity better than anyone I’ve read. Plus, he’s smart.

You know how I feel about that.

Anyway, I made a comment on one of Knox’s posts, and one thing led to another, and Knox offered to interview me for his series “Residents of Awesometown.”

Those of you who know me in real life, stop snickering.

Today Knox published that interview, and it’s a hoot. The questions alone are worth the price of admission. (We talk about Scooby-Doo, time travel, Mythbusters, science, the King of Horror…) Head over to Awesometown and check it out – and take a look around his blog, while you’re there.

You can thank me later.

When Dreams Don’t Come True

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Presenting…my first-ever cameo guest post!

A few months ago, wanting to reference Sally Ride in a post I was writing, I Googled “first female U.S. astronaut” – only to discover that Sally Ride does not hold that distinction. And I stumbled upon a wonderful, heartbreaking story that I knew I wanted to write about.

My friend Tony Alicea has been running a series on his blog, called Awaken the Dreamers. When I approached him about writing a guest post for the series, featuring my newly-found story, Tony said, “Absolutely!”

Writing this post kicked me squarely out of my comfort zone. I do not usually write “devotional” posts, but I am so happy to be doing my first one for Tony. Please read it by clicking here.

I hope you like it.

ATCL – Glamour Girl

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You know how they say “opposites attract”? Well, sometimes it’s true – and such is the case with me and my Drama Queen friend, Jenny. She puts the pizazz in Christianity, and I talk about her today over at All The Church Ladies.

You can read the whole story by clicking here!

 

Potato Salad: a Southern Recipe

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This week, I was going to write about an exciting new development in theoretical physics, in the area of the 4th dimension.

I know how much you guys love that stuff.

But I had to pull out my Stephen Hawking to brush up on the topic, and as it turns out, I’m having a devil of a time figuring out how to put it all in plain English. Maybe because I’m a bit fuzzy on it, myself.

So instead, this week, I’m going to talk about potato salad. Continue reading →