Today is Press Freedom Day. Now more than ever, we need to protect our access to news and world events from a free and independent press. Here are some links that should definitely spend some time today reading:
Bipartisan Call to Protect Journalists
Why the Times is taking down its paywall (and at the end of the three days, think about subscribing)
One of the prompts in this season’s memoir writing workshop was to think about all of the excuses we make to NOT write; to avoid the writing that we love so much. This list is not all inclusive, but this is what came forward for me on this topic. What are some of your excuses not to write? Continue reading
The Write Life has compiled a list of 20 Inspiring Writing Podcasts to Subscribe to right now. I’d recommend giving them a try before subscribing, but it’s easy enough to unsubscribe if a particular podcast isn’t for you.
The one podcast I listen to on a regular basis is writer, Ann Kroeker’s Writing Coach. I use PlayerFM and I am very fond of their platform.
Look for a special bonus Writing Advice later on this afternoon to finish out the series!
Since the original post I made about the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates, two more have announced their intention to run for the Democratic nomination: Seth Moulton and Joe Biden, and three new Pod Save America interviews have come out: Moutlton, Kamala Harris, and Jay Inslee. Those interview links can be found on the original post.
Until the 2020 Election, the link for the candidate post will be on my Welcome page as well as on my We the People page.
People are donating and supporting their favorite candidate, kind of kicking the tires as it were, the eventual nominee is going to have some work to do in order to catch up to Trump who so far, isn’t going to be primaried.
At the end of the primaries, we will need to support the nominee no matter which candidate it is. All of their voices should be heard; they all have important messages on morals, decorum, policy and who we are as Americans. I have my favorites and I’m sure I will talk about them in future political posts.
Once the primaries are over and the general election campaigning begins, the Democratic Party candidate needs ALL OF OUR support and unity. They will also need a lot of money to compete with the Repuplican and Trump Propaganda machine, and the folks at Crooked Media have come up with a plan that you can participate in right now.
The Unify or Die fund.
All contributions to this fund will be transferred to the candidate who is nominated at the Democratic National Convention for the general election. This can be done now.
I will also be adding this link to the original post, and adding it to my home page and my We The People page.
This is life and death. Literally. We must unify or die.
I don’t know Michelle Francl-Donnay personally, she is the friend and a writing colleague of a friend, but I have had the pleasure of reading some of her writings especially around Lenten and Easter times.
I learned of her writing about a year ago from my aforementioned (and linked to) friend when I read Not by Bread Alone for Lent 2018, the daily reflection book published by Liturgical Press. My parish has been giving out these little books at each Lent and Advent (and this year for Easter) for a couple of years now, and they are by far my favorite seasonal devotional, and Michelle Francl-Donnay is by far my favorite writer of these little books (no offense to the other wonderful writers in other years). I’m excited that she will be writing the next Lent book for 2020!
I’m currently reading the multi-author book form the same publisher for the Easter season where she is the writer for the first section.
I love her writing, the way she conveys not only the spirituality but the humanity, the day to day humanness that is similar to what and how I’m inspired to write about my faith journey. She is also a scientist, a professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College and co-hosts a series of conversations with Director of the Vatican Observatory, Guy Consolmagno, SJ about Catholic scientists, and with that scientific background brings something of the vastness of the universe to G-d’s world and really expresses both the faraway-ness of G-d as well as the intimacy. I am always left wanting more as I continue to ruminate on her reflections.
You will not be disappointed when you check her out.
Writing on Spirituality and Contemplative Life
Griffins and Ginger Snaps 