Pursue individual rights, or care for our community? Which is best for individuals?
I contemplate a few answers in my article for Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) Magazine, Scrooge: Individualism Run Amok. It is now available free of charge. Continue reading Scrooge: Individualism Run Amok
My latest article for Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) Magazine, “Scrooge: Individualism Run Amok,” has been published today!
CAPC Magazine issue 4 of 2020: Traditions
It’s currently behind the CAPC members’ paywall. For a mere $5/month you can pay excellent writers and also have access to the full magazine and back issues, the members-only community group, and the current rotation of free e-books and music in the member zone.
I cannot say enough good things about the people and conversations in the members-only community group. JOIN US!
Today is Bike to Work Day and Bike to School Day in Idaho’s Wood River Valley.
And it’s raining. *whimper*
Hmm, since my writing office is at home, I’m already at work! But… but… that would be wussy. Terrible example for the kids.
“You’re coming, aren’t you, Mom?” asked my daughter.
“Yes! Yes, I am,” I replied.
So, my business had 100% participation! And so did our family.
I am back home now. Pockets unloaded of swag, my wet bicycling things are hanging to dry. And I’m back in my fuzzy robe, warming up. All in a day’s work, play, and parenting.
Fifteen years ago, my husband, Todd, and I sailed across the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to New Zealand.
About a month ago, Christ and Pop Culture (CaPC), in their online members’ magazine, published my article detailing some of our Pacific adventures. What we began as a sight-seeing trip, God turned into a spiritual journey.
“Ellen, come look at this,” my husband, Todd, requested.
We were five days sailing into our first ocean passage from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, to the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia in 2000. We expected the 2,800-mile journey to take close to four weeks and possibly a full month of blue water sailing. I sleepily uncurled from the off-watch bunk of our Cal 34 sailboat, Mandolin. Todd presented me with a weather fax he had downloaded via our HAM radio to our laptop. It showed that a Tropical Depression had developed to the southeast in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, the birthplace of Pacific Ocean hurricanes. This weather system had the potential to kill us. It was heading our way.
I had wanted to write an overview of our experiences for some time and I thank CaPC for being the catalyst for me to finally write it down. Today, CaPC published the article on their website.
I think I might start a #RomanceOnTheHighSeas Twitter campaign. Some choice quotes: Continue reading “Sailing to Paradise: Sin, Disease, and Natural Disaster” on CaPC
When Jane Au
sten wrote Northanger Abbey–her first full-length book–novels were, well, novel. Jane Austen was at the forefront of writing in a brand new literary medium. The following is her take on novels and novel writing:
“…and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel–writers, Continue reading Jane Austen on novels