For these past few years I have moved from one culture to another, trying on this way of being and that way of being like a person does hats. The strange thing that has happened is I haven’t found a hat that works. Nor can I go back to the first hat because things...
Do you ever long to reinvent yourself? If you were going to do that, who would you become? What kind of life would you create? How would you know it would be better than the one you have? If you were going to reinvent yourself, who would you become? Here are a couple...
So for the writers out there I have a question. Is it easier to write about a problem that you are in the middle of because you still feel the intensity of the suffering? Or is it easier for you to write about it once you are out of the intensity? Does being away from...
I have this novel I have worked on for years. I have completely gutted it and rewrote it at least six times. The novel mattered to me. I cared about it. It owned my heart. I was willing to pay any price to get it right. I rewrote that thing until I couldn’t look at it...
I’ve been told throughout my whole life that I am too intense. People complain that I do too much and blame it on my intensity. I am finally beginning to realize that I am just a mirror of other peoples’ inadequacies. They tell me I do too much because they feel...
