A Quiet Corner of a Busy World
They say to "write what you know." Very good advice, though it's always tempting not to follow it because what you know the best often feels mundane and uninteresting. One of the major reasons I've wanted to go to England for so long is to see the places my favorite authors and role models in [...]
My last full day in England was spent in Alton and Chawton, two small towns a short walk from each other. I had an Air B&B for two nights in Alton (with a very friendly cat). In the morning, I walked around Alton (I just happened to be there on a Tuesday when they had [...]
I read a lot every year, but I don't usually follow a reading plan or have reading goals (though I did start keeping a spreadsheet of books I read). However, for 2023, I tried a reading challenge, suggested by the Literary Life Podcast. It was a bingo card of different kinds of literary works/reading activities. [...]
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.-Jack London In these trying times, we are again faced with the problem we wish to ignore, the problem of pain. Every worldview and religious system must account for suffering in some way. In the Christian worldview, suffering is a result of mankind's fall from perfect state in [...]
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