Sarah E. Moffett

Today was the first time in twenty years I have watched my father get ready. I was reading Steinbeck in a musty hotel chair in Monterey when he walked out of the hotel bathroom clad in a white t-shirt and olive slacks. Both were pressed. He pulled up his pants, strung his black belt, rubbed […]

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“It’s nice to have your own place, I will admit that. And it’s nice to have your own time because you can keep people from calling you on the phone and breaking your concentration. Of course, what they’re really doing by breaking your concentration is scaring that scruffy little fleabag back into the bushes.
“That part […]

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Whoever said the first time was the hardest never tried to write a second book.
In a word, this entirely introspective, spastic, and enlightening experience may be summarized in three letters. ARG. Writing book two feels like I’m strapped down on a table enduring Chinese water torture that is percolating right through my forehead and out […]

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Few schools would have taken a chance on a student like me. Not many schools want a student recently expelled from another Christian college, regardless of the reason. Eastern Mennonite University, for better or worse, gave me a chance to start over, granting my request for admission as a junior in the fall of 2000.
Upon […]

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CSS Publishing Acquires FaithWalk Publishing*
In a move to broaden its growing presence in the ecumenical Christian book market, CSS Publishing has acquired FaithWalk Publishing.
Based in Grand Haven, Michigan, FaithWalk Publishing has a diverse list of Christian Living, Church Leadership and Fiction titles. Founded in 2002 its forty title list includes popular fiction titles by authors […]

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Now that I’ve shared with you my new hero, I know you’re wondering how he, who shares the same last name as a Nobel Prize winning economist, ended up with the first name “Kinky.” O.K., maybe you’re not, but I was. Click play for the answer to that and all of your other unasked questions.

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…for this week.
1. Trying to read Proust’s Swann’s Way
2. Trial
3. Miley Cyrus being inescapable
4. Congress.  I can’t explain it more specifically, they just annoy me.  Alot.
5. Wearing hosiery (anytime, but particularly due to skirt suits in winter)
6. Bad shiraz
7. Parking behind a mini cooper that takes up two full spots on H street
8. The very large man […]

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Kinky Friedman. If you read his most recent column for Texas Monthly, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, he would be your hero too. That is, of course, if you stumbled across him after having just finished another trial, were struggling with writer’s block, were being “haunted by the waters” of Norman Maclean’s masterpiece A River […]

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When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing that you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was […]

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