The following is part of the back story I developed for the narrator in my short story “Mephibosheth“. Birk Sproxton, who led the creative writing class at the Red Deer College in 2002 (where said story emerged) gave us a character assignment to generate a life for the narrator and to write a story in [...]
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Here’s a video with a bit of the background information about how “Mephibosheth” came to be as a story, with a short tribute to the late Birk Sproxton, a Canadian writer many of us miss. Read “Mephibosheth” here. Read the back-story material Andrew discussed in the video.
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Was happy to receive the new issue (in English) of Eye See Magazine in the mail today. An article I wrote, “Reflections on My Time Spent with Burmese Refugees in Malaysia” was featured in the latest issue. Order your copy today to support the magazine. The magazine gives 1/4 of all profits toward a clean [...]
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No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its [...]
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Missed and loved and shining brightly in our memory. This year was not the same without you. An interview with Molly. A poem of celebration.
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The smell of coffee. Pages steeped and hung to dry. A strung out hands on process. I’m making another set of my handcrafted collection of poetry God/he. I enjoy the process. It’s timely, reflective. It makes me thankful for one of the many things that trees give. For the privilege of belief. For the weight [...]
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I’m reading through Orthodoxy again. It’s a habit I can’t quite kick. What we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, [...]
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Interview: Bryan + Katie Torwalt, "Here on Earth"
Andrew's TEDx talk, "Considering Danger"
Interview: Kidnap Survivor and Inspiring Humanitarian Amanda Lindhout
If God Had A Facebook Account, What Would He Write on Your Wall?
Mephiboseth, a short story by Andrew Kooman
If Rudyard Kipling had Fridge Magnets
Chasing Tradition: Herbert's "Altar"
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