Into the Fire

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  • Those were the days . . .

      Snow in Seattle: a mess. Abandoned cars on the freeway and everywhere else. My son’s beautiful Mustang included. Fortunately it’s pulled off the road. Hopefully we can get it towed today, but the towing companies are swamped.   Those were the days when snow used to be fun. Junior and senior high school especially.…

  • Ranting and Raving . . .

      Rants:   I’ve about had it with the NFL officiating. Let’s put tutus on the quarterbacks. Pink ones. Calling personal foul/unsportsmanlike conduct/head to head (leading with the helmet) penalties have become the new fashion statement for officials. Except that the majority of the calls haven’t been right. And it’s 15 yards. I’m telling you…

  • Sunday’s Offerings

      Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. John 21:25 (NIV)

  • Somebody is listening . . .

      While it would seem half of our population resents Christianity and dismisses most of the message and its deliverers, the truth is somebody’s listening. Somebody hears the words spoken by Christians, written by Christians, sung by Christians, and sometimes those somebodies respond. The reason might be clothed in how well the message was spoken,…

  • What do you want people to know about you?

      This was a question posed to President George W. Bush by Rush Limbaugh concerning the president’s book Decision Points. This post isn’t about President Bush’s book. It’s about his answer to this question. He said he hoped people would find he had a good sense of humor and he wanted them to know how hard it…

  • Prayer for little Sarah, please.

      LIKE SAND THROUGH THE HOURGLASS…   Some of you may not get that reference to the “Days of Our Lives” soap opera. I hate to break out such a reference but geez, the days of OUR lives can be far more riveting. I want to begin by saying that our life is not all…

  • Aaahh, the irony . . .

      Sometimes the writing biz mystifies me. Truly. The advice surfaces from one author and is parroted by many. An editor states an opinion of how a manuscript is made better doing such and such, and that becomes the only way to write a story, to put words together, to produce a well-written novel. Over…

  • When it all comes due . . .

      Perhaps I sound a bit morose lately. Not meaning to. A lot of inspiration for death talk. Which leads to life talk. Because if you can read this, you’re still breathing.   My friend Kirk who I met at a writing conference last May has four children. His youngest, who is still at the…

  • Help for a friend . . .

      Hey all,   This is Daniel DeGarmo with DeWard Publishing Company.   I'm sure all of you are aware of Sandi Rog's latest battle (with cancer – Type T-cell Lymphoma) that just began last week. As you can imagine, she's devastated, especially considering the timing of all this as her first novel, The Master's Wall just released last Monday.…

  • Just a glimpse . . . From the Corner of His Eye

      Thanks to my friend Dayle who has been demanding—er, coaching—me to read a Dean Koontz novel, thanks to his generosity to send me one, I can now proclaim to have read From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz, originally published in 2000. Hmm. Here are my thoughts on this novel experience.  …