HeyJaredCarolyn Givens
A writer & publisher watching the world. One of my professors, Dr. Bancroft, once said, "The writer is the one who points and says, 'See.'" And later, I heard Gary D. Schmidt say that writers notice. Here, with no particular finesse, are my Notices.
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Airport Observations (opens the original)
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Observing people in the airport is one of my favorite past times. This past weekend’s travel included a woman wearing a sweatshirt that said, “Airplane mode” and a man wearing a t-shirt with a buffering circle icon and the phrase, “Hold on. I’m thinking.”But my highlight was an airport employee who brought a woman in a wheelchair to the gate. We were on a Frontier flight, an economy airline with very limited luggage options. As people approached to check the size of their bags, he evaluated each
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My first book is dedicated to Dr. RoseLee Bancroft. Smuggins, the main character in that story, entered my imagination in her Great Christian Writers class as we read Milton’s sonnet on his blindness.That same class was where I first read T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the poem that eventually inspired my second book, <a href="https://www.bandersnatchbooks.com/store/p/rosef
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