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Apr 28, 2024
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Performing Ablutions
Making writing an invitation
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Trust and Distrust and Trusting
Heightened states of vulnerability open up the world in interesting ways.
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What creative type are you?
Dec 10, 2023
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Somebody Somewhere
Dec 22, 2024
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This is 60: Creativity in the Third Act
Jan 5, 2025
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Because it's my birthday: A wacky year in review
Dec 28, 2025
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The heart (and art) of helplessness
Aug 31, 2025
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My depression and my creativity
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The Death Card
Death? Or reinvention? Or transition? Or rebirth? Or death?
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On quitting (and not quitting)
Since we just passed the halfway mark of JanYourStory at Memoir Nation—the challenge to write 500 words of your memoir each day—I’ve been thinking of…
Jan 18
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Birthing a Book
“Book Birthday” is a popular phrase in the publishing industry for the day a book is published.
Jan 11
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Against self-improvement?
To be American is to be dissatisfied with yourself.
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Because it's my birthday: A wacky year in review
Tomorrow is my birthday, and since I’m a middle child with a birthday squeezed in between Christmas and New Year’s, I tend to be tenacious about…
Dec 28, 2025
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My Word for 2025: "Momentum"
It’s the time of year for the word of the year!
Dec 21, 2025
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Reclaiming time
Time isn't meant to be kept in an accountant’s ledger.
Dec 14, 2025
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