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How do we summon the energy to do the thing when our heart isn't in it?  Maybe this is the fulcrum of exhaustion.  I want to write that the heart ...

To risk meaning nothing, what is really at risk? Maybe this is inherent in the act of writing and creating, but this risk doesn't feel existential...

What lessons outside of the classroom have saved me? And from what? Embarrassment? Disaster? Harm? Too many to count. And maybe that's a sign of a...

When we share ourselves and our natural talents and perspective we are gifting a piece of ourselves. Hyde tells us there's an inherent identity th...

Everything we sense has the potential to cast us into another world: an ethereal space before speech and words, before convention, before thought....

I spend a great deal of time worrying about creatives. To be clear, I think everyone is a creative, but here I specifically mean people who identi...

Focus is love. If we feel disconnected, from a loved one, from a passion, from ourselves, focus is the salve.  But focus is hard to summon and cul...

For a very long time, I was unaware of the state of my own home. When I found myself living out of my car and crashing on friends’ couches, I was ...

Hemingway said, “the world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” A strange paradox: where we break, strength endur...

When we read, we liberate, says Glück. We liberate a “companion spirit,” someone we have a relationship with, someone we are connected to. But I w...

When it comes down to the foundational elements of inspiration and creativity, it's really just a desire to recreate, is it not?  Something we've ...

With every word I write I am becoming something else. I feel like I am alerting every cell in my body to this change, but it most certainly is the...