There’s great in relief showing my struggles and grief when I know how things will really turn out.
Read MoreHow scary stillness seems if you believe you have lost the means of propulsion.
Read MoreAll discouragement and despair are an expression of erroneous fortunetelling.
Read MoreThe choice to start again will always be available, just the as fearful questions will be waiting to challenge you again.
Read MoreThat’s the beauty of stories. Once we’re finished telling them, they belong to the reader.
Read MoreNo one can really tell you you’re good enough in a way that will really matter.
Read MoreWhere you are will always be somewhere when you ask yourself why you’re there.
Read MorePeople, after all, are creative by nature.
Read MoreWe don’t describe the entire room, just the crooked lampshade, the stain on the ceiling, the threadbare rug.
Read MoreI’ve lived years, decades even, within a spell I’ve cast on myself.
Read MoreA friendship, a story, or a conversation with a stranger were just vessels.
Read MoreThe stories I read need me to bring them to life; until I do, they are just lines on a page.
Read MoreTo tell this new story, I must see it – not invent it, and not even believe it.
Read MoreLife is a current, not a fractured collection of events, and certainly not a static object to be studied and dismantled.
Read MoreReaders and writers often segregate themselves through the natural selection of preference.
Read MoreIt was as if the sales report were a terminal diagnosis from my doctor.
Read MoreThere is not one thing I have ever done that I have thoroughly enjoyed every single time I’ve done it.
Read MoreThe best I can offer is to tell a better story, one where all fear and pain is a consequence of misunderstanding.
Read MoreTo write, I must accept that I am the drill sergeant, dreaming new challenges for myself each morning.
Read MoreAnd yet even in a place that seemed barren to me, there grew that flower calling for my attention.
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