by jeffrey | Dec 17, 2025 | Real Life
Last month, when I wrote here exhorting everyone everywhere to take up reading again, I meant it. I hope you, if reading has fallen off your radar, if it has been choked and throttled and stomped by social media into a whimpering orphan like Tiny Tim begging for food,...
by jeffrey | Nov 14, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
You know you ought to. Perhaps you have even told yourself, say, in the evening after someone convinced you to go with them to see Shakespeare in the Park, or some classical concert or ballet—The Nutcracker or The Messiah at Christmastime, and you came home and said,...
by jeffrey | Nov 10, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
Do suicides experience relief from the painful circumstances that led them to such extreme measures? What if they cross over and find it’s somehow worse than staying in their physical bodies? What if people who commit suicide actually find themselves in a place...
by jeffrey | Apr 21, 2025 | Fiction, Real Life
Writing a modernized account of the biblical gospel comes with a new challenge I’ve never encountered in fiction writing. I continue to add material to my forthcoming book Blue Gospel, and I’ve recently added an account of the central figure’s birth...
by jeffrey | Apr 9, 2025 | Real Life
You may have heard that my Alma Mater, the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University, will come to an end this August. I and my fellow students cannot express our heartbreak at learning that forces within the conservative board and administration had decided to fire...
by jeffrey | Mar 8, 2025 | Real Life
My latest novel is called BLUE GOSPEL. It could be available as early as this summer. But this week I got cover art finalized, so I am happy to show off the new book. BLUE GOSPEL is a 20th century update of the biblical gospel story from the perspective of the minor...
