READERS WANTED: Reflections on Finding an Audience

"Does it matter if you have a large readership?  Do you want more hits? If you do, then why?  The answer to that question is very important." My friend Jenny always asks good questions. To have a moment of theatre, you need two things.  An actor and an audience. Does it need to be a …

Focusing Wonder, Narrowing Mystery

Help me out here. The project?  Focusing my blogging, narrowing my subject matter.   Answering the question: what is all this blogging about?  I mean the blogging in the jeffberryman.com world.   If you've been reading my work for awhile, tell me what you think I'm up to. It's not that I don't know...exactly--after all, …

I Need Words

Tonight, some words. The dryer's running, and it's hot in my office.  How the rain outside asserts itself into my space is hard to say, but it does.  I like rain, but I'm tired of it.  "No grumbling," God's word says, but grumbles pour in and out of my head before I hardly know they're …

What Two Months of Civil War Reading Will Do To You

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped." After two months of reading, and a trip to Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, here's a little of what's on my mind: The Civil War The battle for how history is told Robert E. Lee and "honor" The muddy boots …