Governor Bill Haslam on Faithful Presence
This week’s guest on The Habit Podcast is Bill Haslam, a two-term governor of Tennessee and a two-term mayor of Knoxville. In a political climate marked by metastasizing outrage and division, […]
Governor Bill Haslam on Faithful Presence
This week’s guest on The Habit Podcast is Bill Haslam, a two-term governor of Tennessee and a two-term mayor of Knoxville. In a political climate marked by metastasizing outrage and division, […]
Readers Like to Fill in the Blanks (Sometimes).
In one of our discussions during Writing with Jeeves and Wooster, we got on the subject of ellipsis, the intentional omission of words or information requiring the reader to fill […]
Diana Glyer on C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy
In this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast, I speak with Professor Diana Pavlac Glyer. She is an expert on Tolkien and Lewis, especially with regard to their collaboration in […]
You Can’t Save Time
I recently got a Monk Manual, a daily planner that seeks to incorporate some of the intentionality and structure of monastic life in order to establish “peaceful being and purposeful […]
JJ and Dave Heller on Lullabies and Bedtime Stories
JJ Heller writes lullabies with her husband Dave and sings them for children, their parents, and the children inside the parents. Since 2017, the Hellers have released a new song on […]
Clarity Vs. Tension
One of the first principles of clear writing is to get to the grammatical subject early in a sentence, and to get to the verb soon thereafter. Every time a […]
For Buddy Greene and Jeff Taylor, Friendship Is a Creative Force
For a decade and a half, Buddy Greene and Jeff Taylor have been making music together in a wide variety of venues and a wide variety of costumes. They are […]
The Long Middle
Artist and graphic novelist John Hendrix posted this image of what it feels like to do a big creative project (you can click to see a bigger version): That looks […]
Douglas McKelvey: Writer of Fan Letters, Maker of Finger Puppets
Doug McKelvey is best known as the author of Every Moment Holy, “new liturgies for daily life.” He has also been a songwriter and a screenwriter. In this episode, the Sad Stories […]
One Trick for Writing Better Essays
When you start writing an essay or column or blog post, you likely have some good ideas that you want to write about. But you almost certainly haven’t had your […]