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Tag Archives: stories
Darkness & Light
Lent has officially ended. Today is Good Friday, the second of the three days (Triduum) leading up to Easter Sunday. Today — or rather, tonight, at sundown — marks the start of Passover. I’ve been thinking today about story, without … Continue reading →
Posted in faith, prayer, reading, spirituality, teaching, Uncategorized, writing
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Tagged Easter, Good Friday, Habit of Happiness, Lent, Lindsey Crittenden, narrative, Palm Sunday, Passover, Phil Klay, Prayer in the Furnace, Redeployment, SF Writers' Grotto, stories, story, suffering, Triduum
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Following the Bees
Two weeks ago—and it was a fabulous vacation, btw—I posted about Penelope Lively’s book Making It Up, with some observations about living out alternative lives in fiction. What would have happened if…? Writers are often asked where we get our … Continue reading →
Posted in craft, writing
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Tagged "Bees for Honey, American River, archeologist, archeology, dreams, glass blowing, ideas for fiction, jobs, Making It Up, marine biology, occupations, Penelope Lively, stories, story ideas, The View from Below
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If I Gave a Reading in the Forest, and No Tree Fell, Would Anyone Buy a Copy of My Book?*
While in grad school, some seventeen years ago, I taught my first class and gave my first public reading. Both were nerve-wracking—I practiced for days, reading aloud from pages marked up with little arrows and accent marks. You know, slow … Continue reading →
Posted in community, faith, spirituality, teaching, Uncategorized, writing
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Tagged a writer's writer, Alan Jones, Benjamin Ismail, community, Dean Alan Jones, Facebook, Facebook page, Grace Cathedral, grad school, Julia Halprin Jackson, Lindsey Crittenden, low attendance, Pam Metzger, public readings, Sacramento, stories, Stories On Stage, storytelling, The Art of FIction, The Water Will Hold You, theology of abundance, theology of scarcity
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Rising & Falling
I can’t get a certain floor out of my mind. It’s tiled, worn, and – the best part, the part I can’t forget – undulating. I’d attach a picture if I had one, but the entire time I stood on … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alaska, Clark's Point, fishing village, Fourth Crusade, Lindsey Crittenden, Nushagak River, pictures, San Marco Basilica, stories, story ideas, The View from Below, Venice
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