It’s been a few years since I’ve updated this blog. When I was actively adding content, I wrote about teaching, the writing process, coaching, and family.
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Dancing for Two: One Reason Why this Writer Needs to Connect Early and Often with His Readers
I am working on a scene in which two characters, a young man and a young woman, begin dancing. They are at a wedding; the young man is old friends with the groom. The young woman is dating another of…
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Mystery
I saw a much brighter scene than what appears in each of these shots.
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Nature; Leading Lines
You can return to places you’ve been before, sometimes the very next day, and encounter an entirely different scene, another world.
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Warmth
I’m continually amazed by the ways color filters can alter an image’s look and feel.
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Quitter – Part 2
After hanging out a while at my wife’s parents’ house, eating cake and playing a round of hide-and-go-seek with her niece and nephews, my wife and I said our goodbyes, loaded up our dog’s crate and strapped the little guy…
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Connection
Usually there’s a student aide at the desk when I leave the classroom. Not tonight. Tonight the lab is mine alone.
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Quitter – Part 1
Ever looked at an old photograph of yourself and seen someone you didn’t recognize? I don’t have handy that particular photo of myself, but it’s so clear in mind it might as well be sitting on my desk now, awaiting description: there’s me, shirtless and tub-gutted, standing…
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Solitude
Teachers: first ones in, last ones to leave.
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Bliss
About bliss: the less said, the better.
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Dam
I drove across the Tuscarawas and headed north, wondering what it must feel like to survive a flood.
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