Little help here?
So I’m trying to figure out exactly what this blog will look like over the next couple of years. I’ve committed myself to putting some serious time into RLP. I thought maybe you could help me think about this.
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Real Live Preacher
How I almost lost Real Live Preacher and how my babies found their way home
This blog is the third incarnation of Real Live Preacher. My original blog was at blogs.salon.com from 2002 to 2005. Then a friend set up a Drupal site for me. I didn’t know I should have been paying someone to upgrade Drupal regularly, so after a couple of years, my site got into trouble. I was inundated with comment spam and other security problems that later versions of Drupal addressed. The server I was using did not give me enough resources to handle the traffic load from Real Live Preacher.
I didn’t know it, but Real Live Preacher was on the verge of collapsing. And I didn’t have adequate backup arranged, so I would have lost the entire site. I have all of my writing in the original Word documents, but I have written so much that I probably never would have found the time to manually re-enter it.
At that point, Tim Miller found me. Jethro Consultants took over the management of
Searching for Real Live Preacher
I’ve been writing at Real Live Preacher without stopping since December 6th, 2002. No one would do this unless they were compelled to do it for some reason. Why would someone write this much? I don’t know. Because you have to, I guess. I feel committed to the writer’s life, which is about doing the work. Times will change; you will change; you will go through
Works in Progress
“Bearing Witness,” a Foy Davis story set in Fort Davis, Texas when Foy was in 3rd grade. Part one was posted 3-17-10. Part two should be ready next week.
“Lenten Satchel,” a short essay on the strange items that make up my Lenten journey this year. Because of Tracy’s comment.
“Last Things,” an essay about my final days at Covenant. Soon to be published by the Christian Century. Will be linked here when it is online at the CC website.
My Latest Book
I’m proud to announce that Turtles All The Way Down came out in November of 2009. This was my first experience with the Consafo model of social media community publishing.
2000 copies were printed. We sold well over 500 as advance purchases or in the weeks leading up to Christmas. This paid for the printing costs completely.