I Have No Words For Everything Is Fine
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A few years back, maybe ten, maybe a dozen, I went to see a therapist. I was trying to figure out what I really wanted to do, and unhappy because…
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Pure inspiration
Pure inspiration of the best kind: “The trouble with setting goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want.” “I return to the idea of a certain…
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What does it mean to “be a writer”?
I spent this weekend at the Bay Area Book Festival. After a talk by Joan Frank, Dorothy Lazard, and Jane Smiley, I stood in line to have them sign the…
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Strawberry beds & sun
March 31st was major: the first day this year without rain in the ten-day forecast. It felt … joyous. Overwhelming. Glorious. California’s been in a hard drought, and we need…
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Updates
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This morning I carved out some time to write: forty-five minutes or so, before work. I sat staring at the screen, the friendly UI I’ve got set up for drafting,…
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About … me? this blog? life?
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A couple of weeks back, I wrote an updated About page for this blog. This morning I re-read it, and you know what? It’s not a bad blog post in…
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