The greatest gift you can give someone else is doing your own emotional work. As I get better acquainted with the types of difficulties encountered by most of us in a day-to-day way, I am less and less troubled by the idea of things done deliberately to hurt me or ruin my day. Notwithstanding its […]
New song: “Things I’ve Come to Know”
As promised, a second song lyric this month. If this curious mélange of folk wisdom reads like something that should be sung by a guy with a little more life behind him, that might be because I wrote it with the voice of Kris Kristofferson in my head. If that Silver-Tongued Devil would only apply […]
New song: “Building Something Else”
Earlier this month on Facebook, I wrote: One of my brothers can build you a great-looking house. The other can wire up all the electricity, making it bright and temperate. And then I can hole up in your spare room to write pithy Facebook posts, emerging occasionally to check your cupboards for graham crackers. True […]
New song: “Sober as Sunrise”
I’m aware of my tendency to get hooked on whatever gives me some comfort: As a kid in need of distraction, I’d haul library books home 30 at a time. I’ve gone through a whole series of food obsessions, from Red Vines and Twix as a boy to Genisoy protein bars and Arizona Green Tea […]
Start where you are
It’s tempting to start anywhere else: Jump ahead a few steps. Pretend you’re further along than you actually are. Fudge the truth a little to put as much distance between who you’ve been and who you’d like to become as you can, as quickly as possible. It’s tempting but impossible. Enticing but unsustainable. You can […]
The not-supposed-tos
You’re not supposed to think of yourself as a writer. Think of yourself as a journalist or a content creator or as any other marketable term. Writer? Nobody knows what that is. Nobody thinks it’s a real thing that an adult person should be. We’re all writers, right? We all write. What makes you think […]
New song: “Gone Too Soon”
A couple months ago, our neighborhood experienced one of those sudden, shocking losses that quietly rattle one’s sense of order and justice. A bright, free-spirited young woman gone well before her time – and not in some big, cataclysmic way that makes headlines all about town, but in the simpler way of ‘here one day, […]
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