Mic and Pen

What's New? Behind the Microphone, Pen in Hand, Out and About in the World

I love my writers’ group

I am grateful to this group. Community is so important. I hope you have people around you who share your passions, interests, and longings. I pray you give and take support freely and abundantly.

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Collaboration- An interview with Ron Grasmick

“It’s about the story of an android, a woman and a young boy’s quest to stop the building of a sentient supercomputer that just might be the Biblical Beast. And it’s the tale of an android girl who falls inexplicably in love, and a Christian man’s dilemma about how to handle it.”

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Legacy Letters

Families are scattered and shrinking, and elder wisdom was disregarded (though perhaps in the new world we’ll listen to how things used to be done). Then suddenly the elder is gone and their accumulated knowledge and belief system is gone with them.

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Tragic Optimism

I don’t have anything new to add to this profound concept, but if this post brings this awareness to one other person in this strange new world, I will have done my part.

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Field Trip!

Do you have a group of like minded fellows in your craft or hobby? There is nothing like “talking shop” and sharing projects with someone whose eyes light up with mutual joy. Being understood by another is a profound human requirement, and I am deeply blessed in this department.

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The John Murphys

The premise is that a woman who is embittered with modern life and especially trying to find a romantic lead responds to the profile of a disabled man. He has an android that looks exactly like him, hence the Two John Murphys. The Droid asks the bitter woman to teach him about love.

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