Write a Bad Poem Day as a Way to Writing
I realize that I have always been interested in how creative work gets done. I’ve always secretly thought that our most important scientific discoveries also came from creative thinkers, and […]
Author: Tom
Thomas Allbaugh’s stories, poems, and essays have appeared in a variety of journals, including Writing on the Edge, In Touch Magazine, Broken Skyline, and Relief. He is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, where he teaches advanced composition and creative writing. Apocalypse TV, his first novel, was published in 2017 and is available from eLectio Publishers. A chapbook of his poetry, The View from January, was released by Kelsay Books in January, 2020.
Good Friday Reflection: Holy Week for the Grieving
With Good Friday, the church enters into the part of Lent and Holy Week that is, or quite frankly should be, grief filled. Of course, through repetition, we know how […]
Fences, Neighbors, and Anxiety
On the last night of the Trump administration, January 19th into the 20th, the Santa Ana winds blew into our valley and took our back fence down. They also took […]
Hope Stone Story*
(This is taken from a memoir I am writing that is as yet untitled.) At a Survivors of Suicide meeting I attended two years ago, the facilitator brought in a […]
Reading Scripture as the Mourning Do: When We Allow Grace for Those Facing Loss*
(*This long blog was originally given as a message at Northkirk Church on June 25, 2019. I have been asked to reproduce it here in a slightly different form) I’d […]