Jerry Windley-Daoust - Writer on Reedsy Prompts

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The Tip

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“You wanna do something fun?” Tanner asks, stretching and yawning in a way that says, Can we be done fighting now? We’re on day two of our cross-country spring break road trip, and I’ve been giving Tanner the silent treatment for going on an hour now—ever since we left the Cat’s Cradle Café back in Welcome, Minnesota. Despite the chill seeping through the windows, the van reeks of B.O. and stale Doritos and pine scent air freshener. I’m driving, and I’ve turned off the radio three times now—driver controls the radio, that’s the rule—leaving...

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Everyone looks up to Jerry Windley-Daoust, and not just because he is two meters tall (that’s just about 6′ 7″ for those still resisting the metric system): he is also the author of more than two dozen books on topics such as Catholic social teaching, family spirituality, and Ignatian prayer. Even more impressively, he spent ten years as a stay-at-home dad for his five children while his wife taught theology at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. He took an MA in pastoral ministry from the same institution, despite submitting a 250-page master’s thesis that his advisor never finished reading. Lately, Jerry has also been writing essays, poetry, novels, and award-winning short stories grounded in Christian hope. You can find him hiking along the Mississippi River with his family on many Sunday afternoons; however, an easier way to track him down would be to find his portfolio website, Windhovering.com, which takes its name from “The Windhover,” a poem by one of his favorite poets, G. M. Hopkins.