Sidestep the Poet’s Pitfall {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 19}
In previous lines of work, when I sat at the teacher’s desk adapting curriculum for little English language learners, or when I wrote and edited and created design full-time for church ministries, I’d hear the bell ring or watch the clock tick to 5:30 to close out my...
A Well-Punctuated Writing Life {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 17}
This past summer, Austin Chapman clicked up the volume on a song he’d never heard. When the sound of angelic descants whirled into his ears from a recording of Mozart’s Lacrimosa, the young man wept. It wasn’t just the first time he’d heard this piece of music, it was...
Ink Spill {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 2}
I push the corrugated metal gate open and walk through the narrow passage to the alley behind the university. Everywhere I walk, I’m getting whispers, hollers and ogles. I hear the word that reminds me I’m an outsider, wai guo ren. I hunch my shoulders to shrink a...
Eat These Words {Undistracted Devotion}
I’ve been putting off the week’s trip to the grocery…don’t want to take the kids, but too tired to go late night. One morning I go to the half-bare pantry and settle on what’s left for breakfast…carb-heavy, sugared-up CoCo Wheats. It tastes like childhood,...
What He Will Learn
The day before kindergarten, he quizzes me, wants to know what he’s going to learn at his new school. I place containers into his lunch pack like I’m putting together a puzzle. “Well, you’ll be working more on your letters and numbers,” I tell him. “You’ll learn how...
I’m Darcy Wiley, co-writer of The Yes Effect: Accepting God’s Invitation to Transform the World Around You. I’m an explorer at heart… Read more