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Fifty thousand in a month? Maybe. Maybe not.
Ready or not, Writer, November is coming! What are your writing goals?
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The Water Is Where
Her breath fogged the glass. But what did it matter? The landscape was as dull and colorless as the clouded pane. A sunless January thaw. Crisp white snowdrifts softened and sodden. The world…
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Featherless Hope
Emily Dickinson said hope is the thing with feathers that never asked a crumb of her. It was not that for me when I realized I wouldn't end my life. My experience of…
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Another summer winding down
Let's call this end-of-summer-depressed writer. I have the accoutrements... Short story collection. Moody music. Notebook and writing implement. Old baggy t-shirt and comfy sweats. But let me share some encouragement, too, while I…
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The poetry of new friends and not knowing
"Or was the point always to continue without a sign?" Sometimes other's words resonate. A line from 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Louise Glück.
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Eating my way to my best self… No, wait…
On the other side of the world or our own backyards, where can we find what we're missing? I'm reading Eat Pray Love.
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Entering Others’ Stories: A Spoiler-Free Recommendation of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen
I've always loved books that let me enter into someone else's experience. No one fits neatly in a box. Check out my mostly spoiler-free recommendation of Chaim Potok's classic and timely The Chosen.
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