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I think I’ve fallen in love…with Barnes & Noble’s nook ereader device! After getting the BN Desktop Ereader to work on Linux Ubuntu (see my entry at WineHQ to find out how), I was hooked. I looked…

Curious to see what poetry books are available for ereaders, I stumbled across an announcement for a film retelling the story of Allen Ginsberg’s hit Howl. From the trailer it appears to be a pretty…

I composed the litany for today’s Church of the Brethren National Youth Conference. My part begins after the song contest winner, and ends right before Ken Medema’s performance.

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Former US poet laureate Billy Collins recenntly expressed concern about the way poems are formatted on ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad. Rather than breaking a line and indenting the…

UNESCO, an organization with many projects including literacy, has declared September 8 as International Literacy Day, and Bloggers Unite have called on bloggers to blog on literacy on September 8 of…

An overview of First Book’s leading edge efforts to bring books to all children in need to help end illiteracy.

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This video does a great job explaining why authors should consider self-publishing (or as I prefer to think of it, being an indie author.)

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Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy seems to find its way into many parts of my life & thought lately. I must commit this triad to memory:According to logotherapy, meaning can be discovered by three ways:…