WRITING

Month: April 2013

Month: April 2013

life in the land of consumers

As you can see over there in the margin, we are trying to gather a group of folks who blog to tell stories around two broad themes (May 15th thru the end of June). The themes are Glimpses of Redemption & Unfinished Stories and I am excited at the group that is forming to tackle these topics. I would love for you join us by sharing stories of beauty within hard realities. You do not have to write like Hemingway or have the following of Justin Beiber. All that is required is a telling of an honest story focused on…

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bowl cuts & potty talk

Thanks to each of you have encouraged me about the book or ordered it or pretended as though you ordered it.  I guess hesitantly excited would best describe my feelings as the release date nears.  I am working through the last edit this week and it has been wild to see it all come to fruition. In many ways the whole book thing has me feeling like a pimply seventh grader all over again.  You gotta know that my m.o. (modus operandi to those unfriendly to dead languages) has been stuck in the preferred position of not-caring-about-much.  My typical take…

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and the rooster crowed

I hope that your Easter weekend allowed you some time to reflect on the claims of a man. I believe him. I have waivered and wandered and always returned to the one I could not believe spread arms wide in welcome. When I was in junior high, I was small. Until 9th grade came around- that fateful year that I finally grew underarm hair (a phenomenon that caught me up with every other boy my age); until then, I was the second smallest kid in my class. You make think that under this set of circumstances second place would be…

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life in the land of consumers

By Matt Mooney | April 27, 2013

As you can see over there in the margin, we are trying to gather a group of folks who blog to tell stories around two broad themes (May 15th thru the end of June). The themes are Glimpses of Redemption & Unfinished Stories and I am excited at the group that is forming to tackle…

bowl cuts & potty talk

By Matt Mooney | April 16, 2013

Thanks to each of you have encouraged me about the book or ordered it or pretended as though you ordered it.  I guess hesitantly excited would best describe my feelings as the release date nears.  I am working through the last edit this week and it has been wild to see it all come to…

and the rooster crowed

By Matt Mooney | April 2, 2013

I hope that your Easter weekend allowed you some time to reflect on the claims of a man. I believe him. I have waivered and wandered and always returned to the one I could not believe spread arms wide in welcome. When I was in junior high, I was small. Until 9th grade came around-…