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Can I get a witness?
Several of my writer friends are on pins and needles, waiting for word from editors, agents, critique partners…you name it. A close friend tricked me into reading GLASS CASTLES, austensibly as a...
View ArticleIn Your Pants/Beneath the Sheets
Have you seen Hank Green’s Brotherhood 2.0 video entry about “In Your Pants,” the latest blog phenomenon? The gist is this: Add “in your pants” to the titles of well-known books, then…well, see if you...
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If you believe the axiom “Idle hands are the Devil’s tools,” you’ll understand when I confess that the endless hours I spent in church pews and on the road to Revival with my evangelical father were...
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Retracing the Sawdust Trail
I spent several hours combing through the newspaper archives at the Los Angeles Central Library last Saturday. Lucky for me, they’ve digitized over a century’s worth of the L.A. Times! Along with...
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#TBT: Indoor revival meeting in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon Revival Meeting, August 1966 In researching my memoir, I oftentimes revved up my roadster and slipped into the role of my alter ego, Nancy Drew. I’ve gathered clues from the...
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#TBT: Pentecostal Revival Tent in Johnson City, Tennessee
In this faded photograph, my father’s kneeling in front of a (heated!) revival tent, with his preaching Bible spread across an open palm. My father said his hands were anointed by God, as evidenced by...
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#TBT My Father’s Pentecostal Revival Tent–built of canvas, faith and grit
My father’s tent revival meeting in Key West, Florida (Anyone recognize the street signs?) A lesser star in the evangelical orbit, my father didn’t usually have a crew on hand to help set up his tent...
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#TBT: My Writing Notebook (Looking Back and Moving Forward)
For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves? –Faye Moskowitz, And the Bridge is Love My friend Emjae created this mock book cover for me a few years back,...
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Throwback Thursday: My Brother Roger (1943-2015)
We didn’t stay in any one place for long, nor did we ever sit for family portraits. And while revival organizers sometimes took candid snapshots of my father’s fiery sermons and the like, most of those...
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Thankful Thursday: Digital Archivists and Classified Ads
Before Twitter, Instagram and Facebook existed, faith-healing evangelists used to announce their comings and goings in the local newspapers. And now, thanks to the digital archivists who preserved...
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