This has been a rough + rowdy week for many of us … … especially those of us here in the USA. We’ve seen visuals of gore + horror, flashed across our screens. We’ve felt angry, violated, and at times, simply baffled. We’ve collectively wondered what could possibly move someone to do…
grief // catharsis
You are not confused.
You are not confused. Storming with electric anticipation? Sure. Roiling & rumbling with pre-flight jitters? Quite possibly. Wrapped in the wonder of rapid evolution? Well, naturally. Experiencing a sudden convulsion of comparison chaos? Correct. Terrified of releasing the vise-grip of perfection – to tip, tumble & surrender to this, this, THIS! Yes….
“Or, you might surprise yourself.” 5 words that make all the difference.
Have you ever had an Utterly Impossible Month? The kind of month where you glance at your calendar — all those appointments, projects, deadlines, obligations, responsibilities, people to care for, serve & delight — and your heart seizes up, in a frigid panic? And you think: there is no way on God’s Green…
“I hate writing.” 3 bitter, distressing & troublesome words that (always) mean something … else.
41,368. That’s how many words you’re likely to write, this year. That bundle of prose is just a tad longer than Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and just a smidge shorter than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. And that figure? That’s just your email correspondence. Not poetry, half-baked screenplays,…
A letter to Mr. Obama, on your inauguration day …
Dear Mr. Obama, When I was a very young child, I asked a lot of questions. (I’m sure you can remember what that’s like, with two precocious daughters of your own.) And one of the questions I asked my father was, “Why do we have an army?” He explained that we have an…
