whee!
life shifts in subtle ways daily, most so minor we can neither see nor feel them. we age, our bike tires wear thinner and thinner, dust collects on our bedside stack of books. and then there are larger shifts: we give birth, we change jobs, we move. we choose a new...
begging forgiveness
I need to apologize to everyone who knows me. apologize, and ask forgiveness. I live in this world with everyone else, but my version of the world is also populated with every character and story I've ever written (or thought about writing), and it is a very full...
writing on hotel paper
like most writers, I've written on napkins, post-its, hotel note pads, stray pieces of notepaper left on the table. journals, spiral-bound notebooks, computers, the back of my calendar. when you need to write, you need to write. I've heard of writers who select a...
tributary
I'm easily won over, easily turned-off, slow-to-warm, head over heels, reluctant, skeptical, leery, gullible . . . all of these things, as a reader. I can fall in love with a book during the first page and refuse to let go, I can pick apart a paragraph and sink my...
be the change
I've always wanted a mentor. someone who'd take me under their wing, provide guidance and wisdom and support, help me connect with those people I'm supposed to connect with. someone wiser, more established, someone who's been there and done that. instead, my...
the lotus eaters
I don't usually read a book when it's newly published, hot, on the best-sellers list. I rarely pay attention to or hear about those books, and I guess if I'm perfectly honest about it, I almost have an internal prejudice against them just because everybody (and their...
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