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Why We Give

Generosity and the lack of generosity are topics front and center in the media these days. The wealthy laud their own generosity even as…

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Answering Epicurus

     Facebook is a strange animal. As I prepared to hit the hay last night, I came across a Facebook alert mentioning that two…

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                My good friend, Ryan Jennings, lives in Healdton, Oklahoma. Healdton is a small, oil field town that has seen its fortunes run dry…

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How Many Times?

              When I was a teen growing up in rural Oklahoma where my father pastored a small church, one of my favorite songs…

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Talent and Hope in all shapes, sizes…and ages.

  I've always loved to watch children create. Whether they are building a castle out of Duplos to fend off an impending dragon attack…

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End of the Year Update

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, a blessed Kwanzaa and that the upcoming Epiphany brings you great joy! As…

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He Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth!

Dear readers, it is not often that I find that someone else has taken the words out of my mouth. Those of you that…

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The Language of Broken Houses

Poetry is as much about honesty as it is about emotion and form. For a poem to “work” it must carry within it some…

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Why Poetry?

As a stay-at-home dad and part-time writer of fiction, I knew that poetry was never going to put me on a best-seller list. I…

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The Trouble With Questions

                When you write, whether it’s for a living or just a passionate hobby, you tend to field a lot of questions. Someone wants…

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