“I have some questions about publishing. I’ll call you.” Last spring, I was chatting at a meeting with an old acquaintance. The phone hasn’t rung. “Let’s do lunch. I’ll email you.” Have you heard that one lately? “I’ll let you know soon.” How soon is soon? Caught in a communication snafu lately? How do we …
Author Archives: Karen
I Will Yet Praise Him
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 42: 5, 11 and 43:5 Three times in these two Psalms, the writer admonishes himself. In D. Martin Lloyd-Jones book, Spiritual Depression, which I read years …
Keeping Company
“Audience, audience, audience.” That’s what Dr. Morris at Parkland Junior College repeated in the Creative Non-Fiction class I took in spring, 2005. “Who is your audience? Are you writing for teenagers, Christians, Midwesterners, Asians, baby boomers, tattoo artists, working class, white collar, atheists?” “Who’s your client?” That’s what I learned in psychotherapy training. What’s on …