Following Jesus in rejecting empire
Some thoughts about each of the podcast interviews
[The following blog series will be comprised of original short stories] July 28, 2021 My déjà vu events happen pretty much every day now. Or maybe I should say that I’ve trained myself to become present to these moments which may well be normal occurrences that go unnoticed. This notion has prompted some of my…
[The following blog series will be comprised of some original short stories] April 21, 2021 So much for beginning my habit of journaling every day of 2021. Hopefully, starting a New Year’s resolution in late April isn’t a bad omen. Maybe I’ll journal every day until April 21, 2022. Jess says that writing down my…
For the past several months I’ve been reading classic short stories on my podcast, Uncle Scott Reads. I just now hit podcast #26, which doesn’t seem so numerically significant until you understand that I’ve been reading short stories that begin with each letter of the alphabet. So from Araby, by James Joyce, to Mademoiselle Olympe…
I love a tee-shirt I have seen women of color wearing: “Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.” I can identify so thoroughly with that saying because I know how to speak confidently about stuff I know just a little bit about. It’s a confidence which was not earned by honest consideration…
So I was lined up to be interviewed about a Zombie short story that was selected for an anthology. But I decided to turn the tables on my interviewer. “Hey,” I said. “Why don’t I interview you!” She just laughed. “That’d be awesome.” So for those of you stuck with unpublished works of fiction, I…