“Did we meet? I don’t remember you at all.” Wrote the editor of a large publishing house in a curt (bordering on rude) email. We had met together just a few weeks before but obviously, I failed to make a lasting impression. Ouch. He went on to say, “Your book proposal doesn’t meet our current [...]
Steve Siniard casually tossed the new Bible his mother gave him aside, not even bothering to open it. As a rebellious fourteen-year-old, he had no interest in God at all. Four years later, when his mother moved him into his dorm room in Tuscaloosa, she placed the Bible on his bookshelf. But he never opened [...]
“Stop it or I’ll bust you. Shut up or I’ll shut you up with my fist, boy!” said my electrician to his son, as they installed my new oven. I happened to be walking down the hall just as their anger erupted. I didn’t know what to do, so I ducked quickly behind the den [...]