FAQs 3: Names

FAQ #3: How did you come up with the names for your characters and books? I hear this question a lot. Naming characters is sort of like naming infants. You have the same pressure of a life-time commitment to a name that everyone who meets your kid is going to hear. If you pick something [...]

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A quiet Sunday

Like my last post implies, I am infinitely distractible. My brain runs on five levels at any one moment. Fabulous for writing multi-level/character stories like the Xsardis Chronicles, not so fabulous for quieting my mind and talking with my God. I’ve been particularly distracted in the last few months and have taken steps to refocus [...]

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Infinitely Distractible

My parents own a small law firm in Bangor. It is family-owned and family-run. Every one of my siblings has worked there, at least in high school if not longer. Although I do not work there full-time, I am number one on the fill-in list. With the snow storm keeping one employee away and the rest scheduled [...]

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The uncertain, certain future

I often get frusterated that I never know what’s coming. Columbia International University one semester, Husson the next, a semester off, and then Nyack–only to find I’m graduating early (hallejuiah). So despite all the disaster that has pretty much changed every plan I ever made, I’m ahead of schedule. That’s God. I can’t always understand [...]

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Super-hearing

I have the pleasure of sitting with my nephews at the moment. The little one has been so cuddly today and the big one is full of “I love you”s. Since my doctor’s appointment was canceled, I got to wake up with coffee and sleepy morning talk with my sister-in-law. Her family spent the night [...]

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She does what she can and lets God do the rest

My new method of Scripture reading forces me to slow down, which is not something I am gifted at. It is helping me to really understand the Bible in a new way. If only a temporary solution to train my mind to focus better, it is a good thing for me to do right now. [...]

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New York City. Round 2.

This weekend I got invited to accompany my sister Kate and my mom to New York to spend some quality time with my sister Julie and, oh yeah, see the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yippee! I worked like a mad-woman until 2 on Thursday when I jumped in the car. Then I had about four hours of homework to [...]

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Jeremiah… the follow-up

The other day’s post was about my article and Jeremiah’s fire, as described by Sarah Groves. I could not help but comment further. I’ve included the lyrics at the bottom of this posting. “The burning of ambition and desire, it never could come close, to that fire…” Seriously, these lines rock. We focus so much [...]

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Cold-calling and almost-siblings

I spent Wednesday morning cold-calling schools in Virginia, attempting to set up speaking engagements while I’m there in February. There is little that scares me more than putting myself forward like that. But without effort the books’ booming success in Maine will never reach beyond. And I have messages that I must share! So I [...]

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My article

Over the years since God began to call me to Rebirth Publishing, and speaking, and writing (an ever-developing call), I have had times when the point of my fight seemed hazy. Right before I got diagnosed with chosto chondrites last year was one of the worst. I didn’t know why my drive was gone, for I [...]

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