Dec
31
Looking Back: December 2021
What did I do in December? What's next?
4 min read
Stephen Hebert
Reader. Writer. Texan. Mystic?
Teacher. Theologian. Mindfulness Wonk. Mystic?
Buddhiscopalian. Houstonian. Human too.
Dec
28
Doing a New Thing
One simple way to create some pressure: deadlines. Announcing a new website: it's not working yet (inwy).
8 min read
Dec
23
Writing is a Commitment
Writing, like a long-term relationship, is a long game: it requires patience, it requires practice, it requires commitment.
3 min read
Oct
02
Conversations with Your Ten-Year-Old
I know I haven’t remembered them perfectly, but these are pretty close and definitely capture the spirit of our banter.
4 min read
Mar
15
Until We Get It Right
We keep going. We write and re-write. We tinker and toil until the thing reaches a level of “right” we can deal with. Then, we send it out there.
5 min read
Mar
10
Writing Like Jazz: Revising with the Energy Meter
Like a good jazz player, we allow the writing to move us in the direction it needs to go. We focus only on this sentence, this clause, this phrase.
2 min read
Mar
07
Think Like Vader: Writing Inside Characters
The author needs to get into the heads of her characters and take on that sense of self-righteousness. The author needs to pursue the character’s trust in her own goodness.
2 min read
Jan
18
On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 2021)
Ahead of me, not quite at the top, I could see in the starlight the dark neck and the black crew cut of a man in a charcoal suit. I called out to him, and he turned around and saw me.
3 min read
Nov
15
The Pen: (Often) Mightier than Microsoft Word
Writing with pen and paper offers a different writing experience. When we write by hand, we do not have the allure of the Internet at our disposal.
5 min read
Nov
13
To My Third Grader on World Kindness Day
While we may not always understand why some people are unkind to others or why some people do bad things, what we can understand is that kindness is always the right answer.
3 min read