The enduring, lifelong challenge, is to remember that what I truly have is always enough.
Read MoreTime will wait until I am done doubting and grieving to resume its work.
Read MoreA lesson in getting what you wish for.
Read MoreYou can hire someone for anything that you want done more than want to do.
Read MoreI must abandon the unattainable dream of the perfect story, and instead turn my attention to the path ahead.
Read MoreIf there’s something in my life I don’t want, it didn’t arrive by accident.
Read MoreI can learn how to do pretty much anything well enough, but I can’t manufacture the desire necessary to master something.
Read MoreThe heat of fear and despair consumes and turns to ash any old, dry thought I might seek to soothe my mind.
Read MoreIt is only our requirements of time, our impatient fear, that will disappoint.
Read MoreSkill and craft are very helpful, but they are nothing without that gem of an idea that needs translating.
Read MoreYou cannot be heard if you don’t hear yourself, and you cannot be seen if you don’t see yourself.
Read MoreMy job as a writer, as a teacher, as a person, is not to be better than I am, but to be more of who I am.
Read MoreTo write a story often gives one the opportunity to choose between doubt and confidence a dozen times in one morning.
Read MoreI had allowed the concept of belief to drift into the airy realm of superstition and desperation.
Read MoreI may have started this conversation, but I’ve become just another enthusiastic participant.
Read MoreHow easy it is to look for my confidence and my value in what I see.
Read MoreI cannot write two stories at once, any more than I can listen to a friend and make tomorrow’s shopping list.
Read MoreCourage is not such a complicated thing. It is what arrives the moment I stop trying to be anything other than what I am.
Read MoreThe more comfortable I have become with writing’s necessary waiting, the more I have to come to see these moments as the most important part of writing.
Read MoreWhen I get to the end of a story, I am most pleased when that story feels like something I followed and found, not something I made.
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