Walt and I are finally cleaning out the basements (yes, that’s a plural); and the over-stuffed three-car garage; and the attics (again, the plural); and all of the closets; and…
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I came across the perfect statement this morning in an old journal: Stop trying to control everybody and everything. I’ve spent my life trying to control my surroundings and the…
I learn so much from my writing clients. Sometimes I think I should be paying them. After reading this segment from Kyrsten Barrett’s soon to be published book, well, I…
Life is cyclical. Seems I need to keep relearning the same damn lesson. That’s why I’ve decided to bring this post back. A few weeks back, Walt and I…
I was browsing LinkedIn this morning when I came across a Steve Chandler quote. (If you don’t know Steve, you really should.) It went something like this: Discipline has nothing…
Here’s what I learned TOTALLY by accident. Personal story sells. When I came out of Harvard, I began to compile some of the personal essays I’d produced in grad workshops….
It was the 70’s. Playboy and Penthouse were ubiquitous on suburban coffee tables, at least in the households where I babysat. My parents, in keeping with the make-love-not-war attitude of…
