I’m No Superstar is a blog for people like me who want to make a difference in the world but know they aren’t activists. Each post contains a social action idea that most of us could do, a book that’s worth reading, or a link to a website that offers other ideas. Oh, and it’s all introduced by a sometimes quirky story from my life.
When I attended my first writers conference back in the late ’90s and people asked what I wanted to write, I always replied, “Magazine articles. I have no interest in writing a book; they’re too long and my attention span is too short.” And I meant it. I began to write articles and have a
In order to make the most of Advent this year, each day I have posted on my public Facebook page a blessing from God I am grateful for. I was surprised and ashamed some days on how hard I had to think to arrive at some blessing, without resorting to naming separately every fattening food
Isaiah 58 talks about the true fast that God desires: Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke? Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When
When I worked as a copy editor for a large in-house agency at a corporation that will remain nameless, we had loads of scintillating conversation at our staff meetings. While your work team meeting might focus on action steps, brainstorming or implementation, ours focused on word usage: How do you decide if it’s “which” or
Liz Curtis Higgs has been a favorite author for both Les and me ever since her Bad Girls of the Bible days. I met her at a book signing event and told her that Les had been reading Bad Girls on our vacation and ended up giving it to the breakfast hostess at the hotel because she was so
Once again God has been sending me the same message over and over. He knows sometimes I am too dense (or preoccupied) to hear him the first time. Often I start with “Hmmm, that’s interesting,” but by the time I’ve heard the message the third or fourth time from diverse channels, I’m listening and saying,
Zap! Zowwy! Bam! Whap! Pow! In our house, we call them Batman words. Nonsense onomatopoeia words like those that used to show up on the screen as Batman fought the bad guys. But chazown isn’t a Batman word, as odd as it sounds. It’s the English transliteration of a Hebrew word that means “vision.” And it’s
My friend Mandy and I debate the whole e-reader conundrum. We both love books, but we love the feel of paper, the smell of ink, the pleasure of turning a page, the joy of the bookstore. Could we possibly cozy up to an e-reader and feel as good about it as we do the bundle
I love books. I know you know that if you’ve read the blog more than once or met me in person. Even when I try to swear off buying books for a season—”I’ll use the library!” “I’ll not buy a book until I read every book on my to-be-read shelves” (yes, it’s way beyond a
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