Do you remember where you were on Y2K? I took a picture of John Michael right at midnight, so I remember vividly. Even though I was somewhere that night where I’d spent many, many...
Meant To Be
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Faith is for Leaping
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How To Love Your Job
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Tomorrowland
When I was younger, I wanted to know the future. I felt certain much of my teen and pre-teen angst would have been settled if life would just tell me already: Would I get to marry him? Or more often, the questions were immediate, “Would I pass the test?” “Would I get the speech out without fainting?” “Would I fail completely in the fitness test in...
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Thoreau’s Way
I’m sure it’s a testament to my passionate nature and not true for everyone. I also know that some people would give anything for boring in their life right now. But for me, the greatest trap in life, the worst soul-sucker, and the quickest road to evil, is monotony. It creeps up behind me sort of unpredictably, the sudden feeling that my work is vaguely meaningless and...
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My Not So Storybook Life
Here’s an excerpt from a book I’m looking forward to. I discovered...
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Just The Next Thing
Life shapes us. We all have things that we point to again and again as the...
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STORY Chicago 2011
The first morning of STORY – a conference for creatives – I was...
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Plenty of Time
I tried to get my boys to watch the Justin Bieber movie. They’re 11, 10,...
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To Be Chosen
The novel I’m working on is about many things. The memoir I’ve...
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Two Reviews, Music and Fame
And now, a couple movie reviews, my way. Which basically means I’d never...
