holleechadwick

I "met" Daniel Silveria in 2004 when we were both bloggers on Blogit.com. When we first met, I did not know that he was wheelchair-boun d—he never referred to it in any of his wildly humorous posts. It was not until he and I collaborated on a series of children's stories that I learned he had Spinal Muscular Atrophy. In later years, Daniel would write about this in his blog post called Justifying My Existence. Daniel was a gifted writer, a brilliant thinker, and one of my dearest friends... Read Full Story

DailyCheapReads.com » Free now: Six books on writing from Writer’s Digest Books Read Full Story

Death is a distant rumor to the young All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.   Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.   As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.   Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.   Computers may save time but they sure... Read Full Story

My youngest brother, Thomas, is something of a genius. I find this odd. Thomas is practically a generation younger than me (a generation being  the average interval between the birth of an individual and the birth of its offspring of 20 or 25 years).  He was born in 1970, and I . . . wasn't.  My most vivid memories of Thomas are of changing his diapers and watching him prepare for his first day of kindergarten.  After high school, he joined the Air Force and was stationed in Wyoming... Read Full Story

I regularly read PWxyz , the blog of Publishers Weekly. I have always loved the magazine for keeping up with the publishing world, and with the digital age, I can do so every day, rather than waiting for my magazine to arrive in the mail. Today, I read a post that once again highlights one of PWxyz's favorite fellow blogs - Letters of Note . According the the About Me notation: Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos... Read Full Story

How to Revise Your Work (& Awesome Editing Symbols You Should Know) by Brian Klems Maybe I’m a nerd, but I love the editing process. I love recasting sentences to make them stronger, choosing specific words to make dialogue sing, correcting grammar until it’s fit to print and drawing little squibblies all over the page (mainly because I like the way squibblies look). Honestly, I use editing marks so much that sometimes I get bored with the usual suspects and make up my own. Here is a... Read Full Story

My dear friend, Dan Silveria, has started a new blog called: Chaosmosis - The Stationary Missionary . I would be forever grateful if you'll take some time and read it. I think you'll find it is time well-spent and that you'll be going back again and again to read this delightful, insightful, and witty blog (I couldn't think of a -ful word to use for witty). Please let me know what you think . . . To whet your reading whistle (say that aloud . . . weading whithle), here's his About... Read Full Story

It is Sunday night and I am watching Dateline NBC. Tonight’s episode is about bullying, specifically among teenagers. The show started while I was doing dishes, and I was only half-listening. What caught my ear though is when they focused on what is called, in modern vernacular, “Mean Girls.” I heard how the mean girls, who for the sake of this newscaster’s story, are actors, very slyly pick apart another girl, also an actor, in front of two “innocent bystanders.” The point of the Dateline... Read Full Story

This is an excerpt from the April 2011 issue of the Bridge-Logos Foundation's Newsletter: Chris Skates—Going Green Going Green is one of the most exciting and timely novels on today’s market. The author, Chris Skates, has twenty-one years of experience as a chemist in nuclear, industrial, and environmental chemistry. His novel is filled with suspense and intrigue involving murder, suspicion, Islam, environmentalism, terrorism, behind-the-scenes government activities, betrayal, global... Read Full Story

Beverlee Chadwick is a freelance non-fiction editor for Bridge-Logos and author of "The Bridge Exhaustive Biblical References to the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit." She has edited many non-fiction books for Bridge-Logos, especially in the Pure Gold Classics series. She is currently compiling and editing a new Charles H. Spurgeon Pure Gold Classic, Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit . For one of her books, Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila she also narrated the audio excerpts. A licensed minister... Read Full Story