by Tom DeWolf | Mar 19, 2023 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
John Irving has been one of my go-to authors, and inspirations for my own writing, for more than four decades. I’ve loved all his books that I’ve read. There are several I have not read. I’m saving them. I don’t want to run out of John Irving...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 18, 2022 | Events, Movies, Reviews
I graduated from Western Christian High School exactly 50 years ago this month. One of my closest friends in high school was Phil Smith. Our senior pics are on the right, scanned from our yearbook. After graduating, I headed to Oregon to attend Northwest Christian...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 24, 2021 | Events, Movies, Reviews
“It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t the way life is, it’s the way life should be.” – Frank Capra I’ve thought a lot, and read a lot, about “pilgrimage” over the past few years. I embarked on a huge pilgrimage in late 2019 when I walked 550 miles across Spain on the Camino de...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 12, 2019 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
(Note: this post first appeared at Beacon Broadside) I looked forward to Dr. Robin DiAngelo coming to the town where I live, Bend, Oregon, since her appearance was announced a few months ago by The Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program of Central Oregon Community...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 2, 2019 | Inheriting the Trade, Other Musings, Traces of the Trade
Ledlie Laughlin, Jr. passed from this life early in the morning on January 21, 2019; at 88 years of age (the double-infinity image), by the light of the full moon, and on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (which is also the birthday shared by my father and my daughter). His...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 16, 2018 | Healthy Living, Other Musings
I’ve joined the cult of people committed to walking 10,000 steps per day, every day (well, most days… you know), for exercise; to help preserve the health and fitness of my body as I age. On Saturday, September 15, I achieved my 8th successful 10,000-step...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 7, 2018 | Author Stuff, Writing, Other Musings
My 9-year old granddaughter and I recently took a walk downtown to the library. She and her sister go to the library multiple times per week with their mom, their grandmother, or me. This time we were returning a few books. As we left our house I noticed she was...
by pockettech | Jul 31, 2018 | Events
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History (2008, Beacon Press; Tom’s first book of his experiences in making Traces of the Trade): “Tom DeWolf’s deeply personal story, of his own journey as...
by pockettech | Jul 31, 2018 | Events
Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award for best Nonfiction/Biography & Memoir! Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (2012, Beacon Press; co-authored with Sharon Morgan): “Gather at the Table is an...
by pockettech | Jul 31, 2018 | Events
Tom is a certified trainer for Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Changing Your Life. Coming in 2019 from Skyhorse Publishing… An addition to the Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding series, by co-authors Tom DeWolf and Jodie Geddes. Tom and Jodie have been...
