I remember feeling invisible. It was some season or other, warm enough to spend time outside just shooting the shit. I stood beside my dad in a friend’s side yard, in a group of people circled up and having a conversation. Or rather, everyone around me was having a conversation that I was not a […]
writing
Before You Quit Writing, Read This
A little under a year ago, a friend of mine started a writing group. His intention was for this to be a different kind of writing group, one where writers could come together and support each other, to kick the “starving artist” routine once and for all. I signed on from the very beginning, not […]
On Writing and Darkness (or: an external look into an internal world)
We all have a face that we put on for the external world – a face that hides, to some degree or other, our innermost workings, our fears and our insecurities. For some people, you can’t see the real person for the facade, where others are mostly transparent, letting their inner self shine through. I […]
Surrounded (or: why not to go it alone)
I decided some time ago to wipe the word “busy” from my vocabulary. It conjures up this vision of days filled to the brim, of doing “things” just to say that we have done them, of a life filled with “should”. No more! Part of the motivation behind choosing to live life on my terms […]