FETCH A CALLING STARA BEDTIME STORY Photo Courtesy of Vrankar Klemen 0:00 / 0:00 Fetch A Calling Star FETCH A CALLING STAR, a bedtime story for children, was published in an anthology called Nightlight. FETCH A CALLING STAR Late one night Under the eaves In a beach cottage with no beach breeze, I […]
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THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRYBOOK REVIEW Rachel Joyce’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a slow start, but I kept pushing through because my friend highly recommended the book. I’m glad I did. The story is about Harold Fry, a 65-year-old man who receives a letter from Queenie Hennessy, his work associate of
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RAGIN’ CAJUN REDNECK GATORSMOVIE REVIEW Recently, I watched a terrible movie on the SyFy network: Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Gators. (Don’t judge me. I was having a low day.) A man dumps toxic moonshine into the local bayou, thereby creating mutant alligators that crave human flesh. These badly rendered, computer-generated reptiles use their tails to hurl lethal
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HIDDEN FIGURESMOVIE REVIEW Hidden Figures is a movie based on a true story about three African-American women who worked for NASA in the early days of the space program. These overlooked and under- recognized women provided essential mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. Faced with the racism and sexism rampant in
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MANCHESTER BY THE SEAMOVIE REVIEW How do you live out the rest of your life after your negligence causes the unthinkable to happen? Even though I saw Manchester by the Sea a couple of weeks ago, certain scenes still keep running through my mind. The movie is about forgiveness and the extension of grace, but
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WHAT? ME WORRY? 0:00 / 0:00 What? Me Worry? I tend to worry. Frankly, these days we have a lot to worry about. To be honest, my worrying is not a new problem. During our wedding ceremony years ago, the pastor sprung an extra vow on me. He wanted me to promise that I’d never
PADDLING IN THE PERSIAN GULF 0:00 / 0:00 Paddling in the Persian Gulf We find ourselves in fearful times. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Maybe not. It’s true that some fears are irrational and should be dismissed as such; however, other fears are not. On
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JFK, DADDY AND MEA SHORT STORY November 22, 2016 marks the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. JFK, Daddy and Me is a short story I’ve written that is set during that week. (Originally published in Skyline Anthology 2015.) Please read below. Late at night, in my small bedroom, by the soft yellow
THE HUNT FOR WILDERPEOPLEMOVIE REVIEW Looking for a quirky movie about a foster kid that is set in the wilds of New Zealand? I’ve got the film for you. Check out Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. I’d never heard of the movie, but became interested when I saw
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THE EFFECT OF FORGIVENESS ON CREATIVITY A good sunset puts the world into perspective. This essay originally appeared in Streetlight Magazine. I’ve kept an idea journal for as long as I can remember. Whenever a word, sentence or story idea strikes my fancy, I jot it down and date the entry. One day, I
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