Last June, I presented a seminar on Frederick Buechner at a writing conference. One of the attendees happened to be the head of a publishing

Please indulge me and accept yet another, “What I did on my summer vacation” post. Since today is Labor Day, it’s the end of summer

In Sarah Arthur’s new book A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, she tells of a frequent interaction L’Engle’s daughter Josephine had

Cogito ergo sum, Descartes famously said, but sometimes I think recordor ergo sum might be more accurate. “I remember, therefore I am.” I have a

By Jeff Munroe dfYann Martel, author of Life of Pi, was troubled about a decade ago by the admission of then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen

By Jeff Munroe “Why write a poem at a time like this?” a poet friend asks, and if you are like me, you intuitively feel

by Jeff Munroe We want a motive, because we want the senseless shooting in Las Vegas last week to make sense. We want there to

by Jeff Munroe Brian Doyle had me at The whole weasel question. (As opposed to “You had me at hello.”) I was undone by the