This week has had me thinking about what I’ve learned in my life, where I am, and where these lessons will take me. In typical J fashion, reflection leads to writing, and writing leads to this: thirty things I’ve learned in my thirty years…
Read Morecoffee shop days.
Today I spent 7 hours at a coffee shop.
Read MoreAll Things Considered.
I could balk and squawk with the best of them. If I really wanted to I could find many an issue or item to complain about. What I realized at the end of last year is that wasn’t getting me anywhere. That wasn’t accomplishing my goals. That wasn’t making me happy.
Read MoreThe Writer's Tool Kit
All this may seem simple and obvious in sitting down and writing but what I have found ever since the writers show-and-tell is that things are typically not as simple or obvious as they seem.
Read MoreWrite More. Think Less.
When I realized I wasn't going to make everything perfect and that I was going to make mistakes, or just create things that might need more work, is when I finally started writing things worth reading.
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