This is THE Day

This is THE Day

I remember singing a song, repeating the line: “This is the day, This is the day.” Well, I’m not singing to you today. Just writing you. Just writing you about a book for you.  On this day—the release date of a new book—“This is the day that your book comes out.”...
The Beginning

The Beginning

A new month.  A new school year.  A new friend.  A new book.  A new song.  A new story.  A new week. A new day.  A new attitude.  A new idea.  A new prayer.  That’s a lot of “news.” The last blog reflected on endings....
The End

The End

Another month dashed to its end.  Another summer hurries toward her conclusion.Time, refusing to slow, surges ahead. So these two words seem to fit: the end. The end of a season, the end of a year, the end of a story. What should we do? Choose to...
64 Years

64 Years

Sixty-four is the number. It is the number of years.  My years. Here on planet earth, collaborating with people and places and things, I’ve lived on this traveling circle.  Years ago sixty-four sounded old. Very old. Now that number feels not all that old....
Jon M. Sweeney’s Life and His Book About Books

Jon M. Sweeney’s Life and His Book About Books

A review by Chris Maxwell When I finally finished reading Jon M. Sweeney’s My Life in Seventeen Books: A Literary Memoir, I wanted to write my thoughts. But I was wrong. I wasn’t finished reading. I reread a few chapters several times, revisiting his stories, his...