In Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott suggests beginning writers should quickly get their ideas rough and messy onto the page. In fact she advocates they [...]

It's strange. The most destabilizing concept of the 20th century can also set you free. I love sharing excerpts from books with you, with the [...]

  Robert Frost once said: "No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Isn't this true of all art forms? I watch my [...]

  "Part of my mission in life is to notice and acknowledge people." ~ Scott Doyle When I heard Scott utter this phrase I knew [...]

Today a man delivering logs to our home told me about a recurring series of intensely personal though non-ordinary communications. Imagine a convergence between Mark [...]

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First you're going to have to catch up on this woman's tale, about how she went from the worst (husband ending the marriage suddenly, without [...]

This past week I began re-reading a mind-power classic by Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. If you're not familiar with it, you should [...]

1. Gaping Void: How to be creative (Cartoon from Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void. Click on the link in the line above and you can get 5 [...]