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Posted March 29th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I dropped a package in the mail to Sharon yesterday. She’ll be exceedingly happy to receive it, just as I’m exceedingly happy to have sent it. Sort of… I guess… This is a weird moment in the life of Gather at the Table. I’ve spent the past week meticulously scouring the page proofs of our […]
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Posted March 25th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Like so many other people throughout America and beyond, I share the grief of Trayvon Martin’s parents. I have no words to express how heavy my heart is in mourning such a vital, well-loved young man whose life was cut so short… for no logical reason I can fathom. Like President Obama said: “If I […]
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Posted March 21st, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I just returned from the national gathering of Coming to the Table. This is the group that brought Tom and I together in 2008 and led to our collaboration in writing Gather at the Table. The group has grown a lot since then. Sixty-five inquisitive, motivated souls gathered at Richmond Hill, a location of enormous historical […]
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Posted February 18th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I spent my entire day glued to the television, fully involved in sharing the home going service for Whitney Houston. I could not believe how riveted I was to the drama unfolding on the screen. At many points, there were tears in my eyes and a choke in my throat. People who know me, know […]
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Posted February 10th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Yesterday, February 9, was the fifth anniversary of the day on which I met two people for the first time; two people who have changed my life in dramatic ways. Both of them have influenced my writing and several other aspects of how I live my life. One was my granddaughter Alison, who was born […]
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Posted January 26th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
While I worked away in my office last evening, Lindi watched the two women’s semi-final matches in the Australian Open tennis tournament. These two seemingly unrelated activities have quite the fascinating connection… at least to me. My work was finishing up the review Sharon and I have been doing of our copy edited manuscript for […]
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Posted January 16th, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Our friends Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby are featured in an article that appeared today in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia: Women Heal Wounds by Facing History. Sharon and I met Betty and Phoebe through Coming to the Table, the community to which we belong, and which provides the healing foundation at the core […]
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Posted January 1st, 2012 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Welcome to 2012! Today is the first day of the year in which Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade will be published by Beacon Press. Sharon and I will spend most of this year preparing for (and anxiously anticipating) our book to […]
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Posted December 19th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
It is hard to be a writer. I know because I am one — and wow, does that feel good to say! Beginning as children (well, most of us), writers are compelled to express themselves. The opinion driven angst of youth urges us (often in dreams) to get things off our chest. So we write […]
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Posted December 2nd, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
A question for you: how have your reading habits changed over the past few years? When my first book, Inheriting the Trade, came out almost four years ago, it was initially available in hardcover and audio formats. Within a year it became available in softcover and digital editions. The softcover is the preferred version for […]
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