Monthly Archives: May 2024

Beta Readers Needed!

Posted on May 31, 2024 by mitchteemley

Dear friends and subscribers: It’s a been a long time coming, but I’ve finally reached the stage with my novel Healing River, based on my own multi-award-winning feature film, where I’m looking for beta readers. Your pre-publishing feedback will help me … Continue reading →

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Love and Benches

Posted on May 31, 2024 by mitchteemley

What is it about love and public benches? (P.S. Don’t miss the quotes after the photos.) Click on any image to enlarge it, or to begin slide show. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, … Continue reading →

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Us vs. Them

Posted on May 30, 2024 by mitchteemley

I am perpetually disturbed by the rise of patriotic nationalism worldwide. Powered by the false logic of protecting “our own,” each successive wave crashes down with increasing vehemence on any convenient scapegoat that can be blamed. A popular rallying cry … Continue reading →

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Oh, Me of Little Faith

Posted on May 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

Re. Household Chores: Why does my wife expect me to vacuum before there’s any actual proof of need? I mean, when I do something I want to know I’ve made the world a better place, rescued it from imminent destruction. … Continue reading →

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Trying to Get the Feeling Again

Posted on May 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

Image by storytelleradams My Real Memoir Something was wrong with me. True, I was happy when I was writing–songs, plays, poems. But ever since my on-stage meltdown a year-and-a-half before, I’d been living with a lid on my heart, “unable … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” ~C. S. Lewis Wishing You a Happy and Grateful Memorial Day! •

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Compassion

Posted on May 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Friend

Posted on May 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: MadeByRona “Have you ever found a cherished friend in someone you’d mistaken for an enemy?” ~The Wishing Map φ

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Friends With Flippers

Posted on May 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Zack and Gina’s friends Maerith and Shelcor agreed to sail them across a tumultuous seaway, but disappeared … Continue reading →

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Four Years Ago This Month

Posted on May 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

A Lockdown Lookback In the midst of the Great COVID Lockdown of 2020, my wife and I said no to cabin fever and took a series of staycaydaytrips (staycation daytrips). Hotels were closed. Food–when you could find it–was take-out only. … Continue reading →

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