I’m trying to find a comics or graphic novel art class around here and all I can find are opportunities that require me to be between the ages of eight and twelve.
I can’t help wondering why we think only kids want to do fun things.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reading some version of this advice over and over: Don’t burn bridges. Be nice to everyone. You never know when someone will be able to help you down the road. Which, oh please. Sometimes the best thing you can do in life is burn bridges. Douse them…
“I am an aspiring author who wants to make it big in this industry. My passion is for writing and I would love to pursue it as a career. I have written many short stories and poems. I’d appreciate any information you can give me.” I receive questions like this every now and then,…
For a couple of years, I have been really frustrated with the fact that I wake up several times every night. Usually I go back to sleep pretty quickly, but other times I don’t. So this was a source of some annoyance, a thing I thought I needed to fix. (If you’ve been following along,…
__________________________________ I am at Mini College, a kind of week-long summer school intensive for university alums, and I am remembering back to who I was twenty years ago. Thinking, if I had known then what life had in store for me, I would never have done it. But the person I am now would never…
So yesterday I was talking about the difficulty of setting priorities when you have a lot of competing demands and some of the work may prove unnecessary in the long run, but if you don’t do it, you may starve and how this whole situation leads to dithering and spending time doing less important tasks…
A friend of mine always teases me about being held hostage when Jess is with me (as opposed to when Jess is with her father), because I answer the phone less and don’t talk as much. It’s absolutely true, and if said friend were to make an issue of it, my response would be, “Have…
