So yes, my dream girl is a beautiful woman named Meganne. A diva, queen of all she surveyed, sitting at her upstairs desk in a Texas Nissan dealership in 1986. As I watched her, she fielded passing car salesmen and customers like a shortstop tagging runners. No one made it to first base. In […]
For several hours the twelve men in the boat had been rowing against the wind. It had only been a breeze when they started, but now, just past 3 am, it had become a howling gale that threatened to capsize the boat and crush the hopes and dreams of these maritime desperados. Most of them […]
When we attempt something bigger, higher, more noble than ourselves, there comes a time when it will require everything we’ve got. But what happens when we give it everything we’ve got ― and it’s not enough? We call Mom. Midnight Call It was after midnight. I was a single father raising my son who was […]
What makes you cry when you read a story? What makes you laugh? What makes you feel sorrow? Joy? Pride? Fear? Any feeling at all? It is the way words are placed on the page. Words communicate ideas, images, sensations, realities. These are called word pictures. We use them to create moments in a story. […]
Right now you are more wonderful than you’ve ever dreamed. You are more beautiful, graceful, majestic, more valued than you know. Every day you accomplish eternal purposes that never enter your mind. How can I be sure? … because you are not so different from me. I know that inside you is a river. A […]
