Craig Dunham's Second Drafts
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On Gifts That Devour
Dear Reader,
I make no pretension of being an expert classicist, but after seeing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey earlier today, allow me a few thoughts on the film, as well as a meditation on what I took away from it.
I’m not going to wo...
I Just Forget Sometimes
Dear Reader,
Happy Independence Day—our 250th. As old as that might feel here in the U.S., remember that there are European pubs and Greenland sharks that have been around twice as long as our nation. So celebrate, but keep perspective, to...
Books, Briefly
Dear Reader,
As the new format around here calls for a grab bag, here’s one: ten books from the first half of 2026 (not including the Book Club books), with a paragraph’s worth of honest review of each. Some were chosen by circumstance (or...
Three Growing Seasons
Dear Reader,
If you haven’t figured it out already, Second Drafts is going through another mid-life crisis (its fourth or so in five years since migrating to Substack in early 2020).
Initially conceived as a way to archive 15 years of old...
On Dutiful Soldiering
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Jim Elliot (1927–1956)
Somewhere in a national cemetery today, a row of white headstones stands in the kind of order only the military understands, each one marki...
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Midwestern husband, father, grandfather, and author living in the Land of Lincoln, Route 66, and the horseshoe sandwich. An acquired taste; opinions my own.
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