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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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Posted November 29th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
While going through some old paper files, I came across a clipping from a 2006 Vanity Fair magazine entitled “Special Alert: Horoscope USA.” It predicts “A planetary configuration not seen since 1776 is coming our way, heralding chaos, revolution, and rebirth” — a 20 year span of massive upheaval that will forever change how America […]
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Posted November 23rd, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
This post is written for people interested in the publishing process; what writers experience in collaboration with a publisher (and, in our case, with each other). Whether you are someone who dreams of publishing your own book or you’re simply interested in some of the behind-the-scenes process, this one’s for you. Each author has different […]
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Posted November 12th, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
I always aspired to be a writer. That is, a full-time creative writer who makes a living from the written word — a good living. But I learned early on that a creative writer is highly unlikely to be remunerated in fair proportion to effort expended. I therefore chose a different career, as a marketing […]
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Posted November 3rd, 2011 by Thomas Norman DeWolf
The United States has a long history of powerful, privileged people successfully dividing less-powerful and less-privileged people by race, class, gender, and other social constructs in order to protect their power and privilege. Over the past year the world has witnessed the less-powerful rising up in more than a dozen countries in what became known […]
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