Nearly four months have passed since my last blog, an entire season on a platform so exuberantly named, Just Write. This writer’s block silence was born from a cascade of some of the most challenging events in my life. Any one of these, thrown like an icy snowball, would sting, but not knock me back far. Taken together, though, it is as if they merged to form huge, path-clearing snow monster careening downhill. It would seem turbulent times would call […]
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Something dreadful happened this week. Dreadful-awful. A beautiful, beloved family friend suddenly passed. She was just 22, my son’s best friend. They shared creative, brilliant joy and sadness, and, like all dear friends, the understanding and acceptance that no matter what the world may see, each was imperfect. And that it was all right. And their laughter was a secret handshake that said it’s okay to be impeccably myself with you, and goofy-silly, and even if you piss me off […]
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I just finished reading a LinkedIn article with a long chain of comments about why employers should be nice to employees who have just given their two-week notice. There was a carefully reasoned rationale, that included thoughts about how your paths may cross again someday, how the person who’s leaving may one day be your boss, and how being horrible could affect the employees who haven’t left yet. Some of the comments argued that people on the way out act […]
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I dreamed of being a songwriter when I was a teenager. It wasn’t so much that I longed to be rich or famous. I just wanted to change the world. The song in my imagination had a beat and lyrics that would make it all better, for everybody, all the time. I even wrote a song about changing the world by writing a song. And now it sits in a scrapbook, yellowed tape on the corners, a white and purple […]
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