Did you go to Catholic Writers Conference Live? Or perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to attend another writers’ conference in the past few months. You’ve come home with a mind spinning with possibilities. Suddenly you have options, and choices to make. You’ve pitched a book (or two, or three), and […]
Catholic Writers Conference Live! A Two-fer Blog for conference goers (and stay-at-homers)
Are you headed for this year’s Catholic Writers Conference Live? If you are, check out my blog from last year regarding conference etiquette. It was good advice then, and I can’t think of a thing to improve on it. Just substitute the words Somerset, New Jersey for Arlington, Texas. If […]
Pope Francis: The Pope from the End of the Earth, by Thomas J. Craughwell
The church faithful and anyone interested in Pope Francis I as a significant newsmaker need a readable, current and scholarly guidebook. Thomas J. Craughwell prepares the faithful to join the new pope in his mission, and answers many questions of the curious. For instance: What criteria guided the Cardinals as […]
Community! Find it in Unexpected Places!
I took up a swimming challenge at our local YMCA in January, and I’ve had plenty of time while plowing through the H2O to contemplate. One of the things that came to me recently – and which I did not anticipate – was what swimming (or any solitary sport), writing, […]
Sliding into the Guild’s News Position
(This is a copy of what I posted the other day on my blog, The Singing in the Wood. As it doesn’t appear to have received any visits…I thought maybe I’d try it this way.) Greetings! Please bear with me as I try to lend a hand with getting the […]
Poet’s Reign on Sunday
August celebrates many saints and feast days including the Queenship of Mary and the “forgottten” Saint Bartholomew. The feast, though that overshasdows them all is the Transfiguration. If you gave it some thought, where are the “marks” in your life where you could say you were truly changed? Our friend […]
Guild members are winning, publishing and practicing Acts of Mercy with their writing
“The Song of the Saw-Whet Owl”, a story written by member Ed Hara, won 1st place in the Writer’s Digest 81st Annual Competition in the Inspirational Writing category. Ed won $1000, $100 off any purchase from the Writer’s Digest Shop, and a one-year Writer’s Digest VIP membership, which includes a […]
Nancy Ward’s new website, JoyAlive seeks to create a spiritual network
CWG member Nancy Ward believes in the Joy of the Lord. She sees it as a source of personal inspiration and motivation to be sure but more than that, as a vital, tangible force. This force, experienced in the ebb and flow of our daily lives and recognized as such, […]
Intellectual Pursuits
Everyone has a self preservation instinct. The idea of care of self is not a hard thing to figure out; don’t drink, don’t do drugs, don’t put yourself into dangerous situations, stay out of harm’s way. What about the rest of yourself? Huh, you say? You know, your head, what […]
The Bible Tells Me So by Christian LeBlanc
Finding appropriate material for middle school faith formation classes can be a real challenge. Very often classes are a mix of previously well catechized youth and kids who have never been in any type of faith formation. Frequently you end up with a class where half the kids are bored […]