I was thumbing through an old journal when I came across this interesting entry. While I still was running Waking Up in December, 2006, a friend of mine suggested that I seek out paid writing work. I had an abundance of time in the store when no customers were around. I mentioned that I had …
I met my hero, William Kent Krueger, on Monday. Maybe hero isn’t the right word. His work hasn’t influenced me, mainly because I haven’t read his writing. But he’s lived the writing dream that I seek. Krueger has published 14 novels, many of which feature Cork O’Connor, his mystery series character. His current novel, Ordinary …
Humorist Finley Peter Dunne once wrote about the powerful influence of newspapers; that, among other things, they comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. “Mother” Mary Jones applied its usage to social activism, and others have applied it to religion. My first introduction to the phrase came through my involvement in social activism as well, …
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If you are the kind of person that can lose yourself in the maze of book shelves of a book store; who cherishes the physical structure of the book with its artistic covers surrounding the thickness of pages between; who can smell the wood of the shelves you lean upon as you open one, seeing …
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