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July 2013

July 09, 2013

A Baby Smaller Than Roosevelt’s Eye

Guest Post By Lindsey DeLoach Jones For most new parents, the first glimpse of the...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

On Plumber’s Block and the Birth Process, Part 2

Guest Post Yesterday, I asked a question that I will now attempt to answer. That...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes

This is Jeffrey Overstreet’s last post as a regular contributor to Good Letters. We thank...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Halos and Other Important Things

By Jessica Eddings-Roeser Guest Post In second grade my mom put me in an art...

August 14, 2012

Shaping the Heart

The following post is an edited version of the commencement address given at the graduation...

August 02, 2012

Finding Poetry and Meaning in Internet Clicks

Three minutes, maybe four. Six minutes, maybe seven. A little bit of time. This morning...

June 2012

June 27, 2012

Writing on Empty

Last week, I finished the fifth revision of my fifth novel, and got notice from...

May 2012

May 21, 2012

Telemachus to Odysseus

When my mother turned seventy a year and a half ago, the occasion coincided with...

May 18, 2012

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part Two

Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924 Olympic Games. In...

May 16, 2012

Whispering Along a Thin Trembling Thread

Most of us are vulnerable to the solipsistic notion that our sufferings and joys are...