Curious Affectation

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Joe Clifford Faust

Okay, somebody explain why in the heck I do this. It’s something I’ve been conscious of for years, and it never seemed to bother me until a week or so ago. That’s when I got an email that inspired this recent post. At one point, the correspondent said, I go out and buy notebooks and [...]

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Life in Slow Motion

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Joe Clifford Faust

Yeah, it’s been slow but happy. Maybe these are the salad days. My wife and I are almost empty nesters now, with our son in China and our daughter in college. I’ve started walking the dog and occasionally picking up the guitar again. Meantime, things are slowly gearing up to do something. I’ve been working [...]

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It’s All Right To Feel A Little Fear

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joe Clifford Faust

So I have hooked and crooked my way into ownership of a new computer, one that isn’t a collection of interconnected old parts cobbled together into a semblance of semi-functionality. Because of that, I now have a number of projects going. First, I am starting to scan my novels into HTML format (thanks to some [...]

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The Year Without End Ends

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Joe Clifford Faust

Well, 2008 has been quite a year. I got my daughter back from Russia. I made the decision to put my mother in a nursing home when my wife and I could no longer give her the level of care she required, and then said “see you later” when God took her home. Well, my [...]

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About An Unpleasantness at Lonesome Gulch

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Joe Clifford Faust

I didn’t blog a word about this one. I just got caught up in what was going on, and by the time I recovered, it had been over for a couple of weeks. And unless you’re connected to me via Facebook, you had no idea what was going on. So here’s what went down. I [...]

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Update, or, When I Have Nothing To Say, My Lips Are Sealed… Mostly

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Joe Clifford Faust

In the last two weeks, two people have told me that I really should post to the blog more often. So I guess it must be time for an update, even though I don’t have much to report, and what there is is probably insubstantial if you’re sitting on the other side of the screen [...]

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In Which The Terrible Misfortune Sets Sail and Doesn’t Do So Bad As All That

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Joe Clifford Faust

So The Terrible Misfortune is history – for another year, anyway. By the end of the play’s single run, there was talk of doing it again next year, and speculation that another congregation might use it for their one-day VBS as well. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Friday. Rehearsal. The same principles who showed [...]

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The Show Must Begin

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Joe Clifford Faust

The Terrible Misfortune is finished, completed with a session on Saturday (Episode 4) and then Sunday afternoon (Episode 5), in time for casting and first rehearsal Sunday night after evening services. The total page count is 47, and I think the two scenes are about of equal length, with 5 being the larger of the [...]

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Pirates of the Church of Christ

Posted on June 21, 2006 by Joe Clifford Faust

Sidelined again, only this time I’m being drawn away from inaction. Instead of having a Vacation Bible School this year, our congregation is having a family fun day – kind of like a VBS all scrunched into one day, with the added attraction of bouncy inflatables and… oh, I don’t know. Whatever else you do [...]

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