Writing Life Archives

Choosing a Name in Time and Place

How writers choose names for their characters.

Often, I find myself weeping over the sepia photos while researching. It happened again this week. While researching World War I…
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Kathleen Chambers was the only little girl in a World War I camp in Egypt. Her father, Oswald Chambers served a chaplain…
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I’ve spent years reading Oswald Chambers‘ famous My Utmost for His Highest, but two years were memorably intense. My life…
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I returned to UCLA’s University Research Library recently to finish my research on A Poppy in Remembrance. (Back in the dark…
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Some of you know the lyrics: “Now’s the time to say goodbye to all our company . . . “ That…
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