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Posted March 14th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
When I was growing up, an oft repeated admonition was that black people had to run faster, jump higher and be twice as good as white people if we aspired to catch up (much less get ahead) in an overwhelmingly white world. Over time, I surmised that must be true. I cannot tell you how […]
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Posted March 4th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Tom and I will be hitting the road in May. We will drive more than five thousand miles, visiting ancestral locations in 15 states. Our tour will no doubt include plenty of sojourns in cemeteries. My uncle says I like digging up dead white people. It’s not that I “like” doing this, it is just […]
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Posted February 28th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
My whole life I’ve loved cemeteries. Some people find that morbid. I find it fascinating and life-affirming. I’ve been known to pull off the road while driving just to check out a cemetery we encounter. Reading random headstones fires the imagination. I ran across John T. Dana’s headstone in a small cemetery in Massachusetts in […]
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Posted February 24th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
A few days ago, Border’s filed for bankruptcy and began the process of closing down thirty percent of their stores in the United States. I can’t help but wonder what that will mean for people who love books, not to mention those who write them (like me). I am not doing the rah-rah for Border’s, […]
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Posted February 16th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
In advance of our trip to Tobago last month, my writing partner Sharon Morgan mentioned that author Daniel Defoe used the island as his model for the one upon which Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked. I checked the audio version out from our library and put it on my iPod. It took a couple weeks–its […]
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Posted February 12th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Collaboration has never been my strong suite, at least not in the writing category. In my professional life (as a marketing communications consultant), collaboration is essential and I am known for being a good team player. But writing has always been a solitary pursuit. When it comes to writing, you will find me sitting alone, […]
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Posted February 7th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
To follow up on Sharon’s “Writer’s Paradise” post, we hope these photos will highlight for you the beauty of Tobago, Richmond Great House, and how much Sharon, Lindi and I loved this working getaway… You’ll notice that there are no photos here of us actually working; of Sharon and me writing, of Lindi transcribing recordings […]
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Posted February 5th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
Writing is never easy. It is hard to sort through the cacophony of messages reeling in one’s head and condense them down into readable form. But that is exactly what a writer must do. In collaborating with Tom DeWolf, I face the prospect of filling more than two hundred pages of a book that communicates […]
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Posted January 31st, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
When Sharon described Richmond Great House, the former slave plantation in Tobago where we would spend two weeks writing together in January 2011, I had visions of paradise-in-a-rain-forest with amazing views, fresh fruit, fish, and warmth — a welcome retreat from the snow and ice we left behind in Oregon and New York. But no […]
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Posted January 31st, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
After two and one half years of thinking, working, writing, planning, proposing and nail biting, we are confronting the reality of what the next two years will bring. We received our signed contract from Beacon Press a few weeks ago. We now have until December 1, 2011 to deliver our final manuscript. Once published, we […]
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