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January 2025

💬 How do you balance faith and doubt?
Our monthly(ish) community prompt | “Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant…
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💦 Maybe It Is Okay to Cry Over Spilled Donuts Sometimes
Ten alternate endings // Something has been nagging at me after publishing One Hit! Wonder last week. In my ongoing quest to fight the urge to appear…
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🙏 Why aren't you enlightened yet?
“Why aren’t you enlightened yet?” (W.A.Y.E.Y.) snaps the most vocal member of my Inner Critic Committee (ICC), an extension of my long-time Personal…
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🤩 One Hit! Wonder: "I've Already Won"
How do you feel about the idea that your biggest publishing success might already be behind you? I asked my friend Michael Bungay Stanier over coffee…
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🥼Chekhov's Crème Clothing
On Falling Short of a Future-Self Fantasy
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🍩 Call and Response: 3 Serendipity Signs
Note: This is a paywalled post, as I do when writing from the wound in real-time, not the shinier purple scars of hindsight.
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🐤 The Goldfinch: "We don’t get to choose our own hearts."
From the protagonist in Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel: "Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and…
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🍷 The Terroir of Transformation, Part Two
How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power?
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🍇 The Terroir of Transformation, Part One
🪩 Happy New Year, Dohnuts! What soil have you been planted in? 🌱
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