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Blog postFather’s Day is here, and I’d like to make this public statement: The most influential man in my life was my father. Because of him, I’m a writer.
He was a high school English teacher. One of the best and most profound memories I have of my father was listening to him read to me and my three siblings at bedtime when we were young. He read poetry every night and did it beautifully. I grew up listening to the bombastic “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” the mournful “Annabel Lee,” the f -
Blog postIt’s been a memorably difficult year for most of us. The pandemic and all the challenges that have come with it have created chaos in so many lives. It would be easy to look back and see mostly darkness, but as the year draws to a close, I’m going to focus on what, for me, has been good about the last twelve months.
In March, I received the second Pfizer vaccination, which gave me enough confidence to embark on my family’s yearly sojourn to Sedona, Arizona. I love Sedona for two main -
Blog postToday, this trunk of a body grows another ring. Today, I turn seventy-one. Yesterday, despite the mercury rising only a couple of degrees above freezing and with a coat of snow adorning the ground, I went on a long bike ride. I did this for two reasons. First, there’s almost nothing like a bike ride to help me feel my connection with the world in an exhilarating way. And second, I wanted to make a statement to myself that I won’t yield to the clichés of aging.
When I was a much -
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Blog postLightning Strike goes on sale tomorrow at bookstores everywhere! I’m so pleased with the glowing reviews of this latest in my award-winning Cork O’Connor series. I loved writing this prequel, getting to know Cork O’Connor as an adolescent, exploring the complex, important relationships that helped shape him into the man at the center of the ... Read more
Full Post: Lightning Strike – on sale Tuesday, Aug. 24!
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Blog postLast Friday, I had the distinct honor of being tapped to be the Grand Marshal for Perham, Minnesota’s annual Turtle Fest Parade. I’ve never been a Grand Marshal before, and I had no idea what to expect.
Earlier that afternoon, in conjunction with The Willow Bookstore in Perham, I did my first in-person bookstore signing since the pandemic hit. I spoke in Turtle Race Park—yep, they really have turtle races—to a group of about sixty people. Like so many areas of the west, we’re in a dro -
Blog postOn Saturday afternoon, the temperature in the Twin Cities hit a hundred degrees, unheard of in Minnesota this early in the summer. Reasonable people turned on their air-conditioners and stayed inside. What was I doing? Helping to build a playground at a transitional housing facility for women and children in need of shelter. I’m 70 ... Read more
Full Post: Building a Playground
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Blog post“The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.”
With these words, I ended my novel Ordinary Grace. Every Memorial Day, I’m reminded how true these sentiments are when I take part in a tradition familiar to many. I didn’t grow up visiting the graves of my relatives on Memorial Day weekend, but my wife did. Every year, we travel to her family home in Nebraska -
Blog postFifty years ago this week, quite by accident, I met the woman who would become my wife. We were thrown together on a ride from the San Francisco airport to Stanford University, where I was a student. She was visiting on her spring break from the University of Nebraska, half a continent away. At the time, I thought it was pure chance that brought us together. I’ve come to believe quite differently about that in the decades since.
Across our fifty years together, we’ve cast substantial -
Blog postI’ve always loved the Frost poem for which this is the opening line, and it came to mind yesterday as I was walking through a local wood here in St. Paul. Thanks to the polar vortex, we’re just beginning to emerge from the longest, coldest period here in Minnesota in twenty-five years. Day after day, ... Read more
Full Post: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”
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Blog post“Peace begins when expectations end.”
I embrace this quote from Sri Chinmoy, especially when I consider the past year. It’s been a turbulent, unsettling time in so many ways. Plans cancelled, dreams unfulfilled, lives put on hold. Giving into despair has been a constant temptation. Yet here we are on the threshold of a new year with hope in our hearts that in the days ahead we’ll return to life as we once knew it.
As I look at the past year, I’m aware that for me it’s been a j
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