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Category: Mastery

On listening to teenagers

This weekend I had the chance to hear a sixteen-year-old harpist play a Mozart concerto on two harps—playing one with his left hand and the other with his right, the type of tour de force you know he learned how to do not because someday a handful of people sitting on some wooden benches would applaud…

Continue reading On listening to teenagers
Published September 29, 2015
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery

On using a knife and fork

Jessica’s last day of school is really just a last morning of school, so when I pick her up, the whole day stretches ahead of us. “How about lunch in Lawrence?” I say. “Yes.” She is without hesitation. Jessica is a girl who likes lunch. “Where?” “Let’s go to Encore,” I say. “They have those…

Continue reading On using a knife and fork
Published May 14, 2015
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery, Stories about Jessica

On why I have a grimoire

This is my grimoire:   A grimoire is a book of spells, but when I call it a spell book, half the people think I’m talking about a dictionary. A book of spells is like a cookbook, a collection of recipes, but “cookbook” just doesn’t do it for me, and is possibly misleading in case…

Continue reading On why I have a grimoire
Published June 19, 2014
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery, The Writing Craft, Uncategorized

What I learned this week

Sometimes, surprise yourself.

Published March 21, 2014
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery, Mindfulness

On shifting your perspective

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,…

Continue reading On shifting your perspective
Published March 18, 2014
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery, Mindfulness

On your one big thing

I originally wrote this post over on Be Your Own Book Doctor, but I wanted to post it here because it has so much to do with what I’ve been posting about a lot here, on doing the work. The key is doing the right work: As I know I’ve said, I get a lot…

Continue reading On your one big thing
Published March 14, 2014
Categorized as Making a Creative Life, Mastery, The Writing Craft

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