Three years ago right now, I was trying to figure out what on earth I was going to do with my life. Three years ago, in December 2014, I was a senior in high school. I was homeschooled, immersing myself in recorded college lectures and books and self-directed learning, and I had no clue what I’d be …
Fiction excerpt; Northwestern Ohio, summer 1938 “The train marked the passing of time on the farm. When another train went by you knew a certain span of time had passed. They broke the days for the men in the fields in sections, made the girls look up from their work in the kitchen until their …
When I first started farming (my first job, in my junior year of high school), I became fascinated by the way the weather changed. I was working outside for hours on end, full days — from seven in the morning until 3:30 in the afternoon — I was in the full elements. The sun, the …
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Define heaven on earth — those fleeting places where we can brush up against deep, unadulterated happiness in its purest form.They’re different for everyone, perhaps. Mine come in many forms. One of them is used book sales.It seems an unlikely place to induce an experience of heaven — a sale of old books, volumes abandoned and …
Writing a good article requires two things: good content and good technique. There’s a lot of noise to compete against when writing on the internet. Anyone can write something, post it, and call it an article — in the information age, the definition of an article has become a very blurred line. The line between …
Papa Hemingway is a biography, written by one of the men who was closest to Hemingway, a journalist and writer named A.E. Hotchner. Hotchner met Hemingway in 1948, when he was sent down to Cuba to meet with the author and commission him on behalf of Cosmopolitan to write a story. Hotchner believed so completely …