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Transformative Family Conversations: Change Arrives at the 11th Hour
“It’s not even Christian,” I argued with my dad decades ago about his church’s exclusion of members who were out of the closet.
Read the full story: https://www.advocate.com/voices/mennonite
Story in Next Avenue
My dad, a retired Mennonite pastor, was against pot. But cancer pain made him think differently about medical marijuana. https://www.nextavenue.org/dad-against-pot-cancer-made-convert
Writing Can Change The Way You See
Writing from your own life experience can lead you down an unexpected rabbit hole. When you start out you might think it's something like journalism. But just as fiction writers say that characters often take on a life of their own, your own story can come alive like...
Finding Courage to Follow a Dream
I loved meeting people on my book tour for my memoir, Crazy Quilt. After a reading, people would come up and tell me how they related to my struggles. Or how my grandparents reminded me of their own. And then there were the comments that led me into becoming a coach....
Expand Your Writing Style
This is a time-proven strategy I use when I'm working on a piece but feel blah about it. Imitate the Greats There are great writers whose style is worth studying and imitating. I've been doing this kind of self-study for a long time. In college, I got accused by a...