Regular blog readers and Instagram followers know how much I enjoy creating blackout poems. I use old free books to make them, but occasionally use other means as well. I enjoy seeing what alternative sentences emerge from the words on a given page. Sometimes they seem profound, at other times they’re rather ordinary. And sometimes,Continue reading “Offbeat Blackout Poems”
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Pancakes and Inspiration
A few years ago, I read Theft By Finding by David Sedaris, which is a collection of his diary entries from 1977 to 2002. Most of them are very short, and mostly stories and concrete observations rather than expressions or explorations of feelings. Even the most mundane things that he writes down are interesting snippets of aContinue reading “Pancakes and Inspiration”
The Doctor and the Apostle Book Excerpt: Changing Our View
Below is an excerpt from The Doctor and the Apostle: Intersections Between Doctor Who and the Letters of Paul. In his popular work The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis imagines a series of letters written by a demon named Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, who is on assignment to tempt and corrupt a particular human. In oneContinue reading “The Doctor and the Apostle Book Excerpt: Changing Our View”
