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Three Reasons Why You Should Schedule Your Tweets

5/10/11 1:53pm by WritingJoy
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I recently read this post criticizing folks on Twitter for tweeting about other things during the recent coverage of Osama bin Laden's death. She makes three flawed assumptions in her post: That many people had scheduled these "inappropriate" tweets That tweeting about the news is the only appropriate thing to tweet during such a moment  Read more >

Caleb's Crossing - The Courage to Try a New Way

4/12/11 9:31am by WritingJoy
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I have always enjoyed stories that bring history to life, that put me in the stench of town life without plumbing, over a wood fire in a dark kitchen, huddled on a dirt floor under a quilt I made myself. When the story explores the efforts of brave women who dared to break outside the narrow lives forged by patriarchy, all the better. Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks, delivered all the above.  Read more >

Christians, Free Speech, and Apple Apps

3/26/11 9:16am by WritingJoy
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Thursday I caught (quite by accident since I don't listen to "Christian" radio**) Chuck Colson's radio program "Break Point." He was ranting in his trademark way about Apple's recent decisions to pull the  Read more >

Too Naked?

8/13/10 5:47am by WritingJoy
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“Writers fail because they come to the page fully clothed. They adorn themselves with fanciful plots and layer themselves with complicated character development. They use flowery prose and words you have to look up in the dictionary. They do this not to impress their readers, but to keep their readers at arm’s length. They’re afraid. Afraid to bare their souls and inject themselves into their work. For that they are cowards.  Read more >

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Full Name
Joy
Member Since
July 2010
About Me: 

I am a writer, mother of four, wife, reader, follower of Christ, bereaved, asker, and lover of rich soil, good food, music, and sunshine, listener… in no particular order.

Two of my children were born with serious congenital heart defects, including my first. It was quite an initiation to motherhood. Between the two of them, we’ve been through six open-heart surgeries and countless nights in the hospital. This writer learned to give shots, insert feeding tubes, run i.v. pumps, measure in mLs, and pronounce words like tracheomalacia.

I’ve blogged since 2005, writing on faith and doubt, family life (which is always humorous even with the medical spin), grief, and the depression that I only recognized a year after our oldest died at the age of 8.

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