This is my book on the writing life.
Wordsmithy
What I Learned in Narnia
This book was originally a series of talks for the kids in my church. Fun stuff.
Beowulf
This is my effort to render the poem in modern English in a way that feels like the Old English. Modern English is a stress-timed language, just as Old English was, and so the rhythms and cadences can work the same way. In addition, Old English poetry reinforced those stresses with alliteration. I tried to …