As a writer, I face no bigger struggle than that of keeping hope alive. Hope that I’ll get an agent, and that she’ll get me a publisher. Hope that I’ll see my book on someone’s bookshelf. Hope that if I self-publish someone will read my stuff, maybe even like it. I suppose most of us […]

As a user and pusher of words, I notice things like, hey, that word doesn’t get much use, or, it gets used in a way that modifies or limits its meaning. One of those words that makes me scratch my head a little? Sacrifice. Today a certain prominent religion commemorates a famous—or infamous, depending on […]