Category Archives: Living Literarily

The reason we’re all here today; foundational perspectives on living literarily.

Jerusalem Letter Introduction

My work (and my wife’s) took us to Jerusalem where we lived for three years from 2004 to 2007.  My first couple years there I wrote emails, essays really, to family and friends about life in Jerusalem.  I wrote about … Continue reading

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How to Use The Life Literary

In this blog I discuss and model ways to shake a dash of literary on your life.  (Or serve yourself a thick slab, if you’d like).  I call it living literarily.  There are a couple of ways to use and enjoy The Life Literary. 1.  You … Continue reading

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Burns Bash: Boffo!

How can it be that twelve people can so enjoy a meal celebrating the life and work of a Scottish poet who died 214 years ago?  So unexpected, but once again, we did.  Conversation was lively.  The food was delicious.    We … Continue reading

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This Is Not The All Things Scottish Blog

The Life Literary will be about much more than Robert Burns, haggis and kilts.  It will be (and even this Burns-tide, is) about living literarily.  I will write about and model many ways to do that in the coming weeks … Continue reading

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Auld Lang Syne II (My subtext)

I think I truly heard Auld Lang Syne (which means times gone by) for the first time last year, though I’d heard the familiar chopped up version of it many New Years Eves gone by.  It moved me so that … Continue reading

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