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Whether He Lives or Dies, I’ll Be With Him

Posted on April 2, 2023 by mitchteemley

I was looking for a way to tie together my church’s Easter series. How, I wondered, might the Apostle Peter have expressed his journey with Jesus if he’d kept a personal journal? The result was six monologues The Simon-Peter Chronicles that … Continue reading →

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Journaling for Life

Posted on October 15, 2018 by mitchteemley

Part Two: How to Write a Life Journal for Present You and Future You (including suggestions on how to use fewer words than this subtitle does) I argued in Part One that the future benefits of journaling are at least … Continue reading →

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Journaling for Life

Posted on October 12, 2018 by mitchteemley

Part One: Why Keep a Life Journal? “In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived… We may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition.” ~Franz Kafka … Continue reading →

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A Filmmaker’s Journal

Posted on April 19, 2018 by mitchteemley

Two years ago, on the verge of directing my first feature film, a drama entitled “Over-the-Rhine,” I wrote my first Filmmaker’s Journal (now an ongoing series). Today, as I re-post that first Journal, I’m preparing to write and direct my … Continue reading →

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