Letting Go of Signs – Our marriage days old, signs portended disaster. My ring didn’t fit. When the jeweler stretched it, it shattered… (read the rest at the New York Times)
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Ten Essential Resources for Nonfiction Writers – The adults around the table are fragile – 12 eggs outside their carton. They’re here to write, but they’re afraid they’re not good enough. As the instructor, I start out reassuring. “Compared to the fiction students next door, you’re out from behind the…
Why you need an online presence as a writer
When you meet someone new, you shake their hand. It’s a gesture that puts you forward in a positive way. Online, your words are your handshake, introducing others to you, but YOU have to be the one to stick out your hand–and that’s what your website and/or blog is. If you don’t have one, someone else is shaking on your behalf, and you have no control…
How to Respond to That Whiny Post About Friendship
Maybe I saw you yesterday. Maybe we haven’t seen each other in decades. Maybe we’ve never actually met and never will due to distance and circumstances. And yet, somehow, we’re friends on Facebook and that’s good enough for me. Really. That’s it. You can stop reading. I’m not here to:…
Unpack the Basket: 7 Tips to Increase Productivity and Enhance Creativity
Ever dash into the grocery store intending to pick up just a couple of items — quick in, quick out? At the entrance, you take a shopping basket instead of a cart. Before you’ve gone a dozen steps, something catches your eye. Ooh, you need that. You go a little further. You…
Why Crisis Hasn’t Shaken the Bedrock of Japan’s Culture of Civility
If we grade a society on how well it holds together during a crisis, it’s clear worldwide opinion has bestowed an A+ upon the Japanese people in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake and tsunami. Much has been made about the fact that there’s no looting or rioting. Outside supermarkets,…
Understanding Japanese Stoicism in the Face of Japan’s Devastating Earthquake and Tsunami
My mother passed away five years ago and though I miss her, I’m glad she’s not around to see the terrible images of disaster, death and devastation in Japan following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. A native of Japan, she moved to the US to marry my American father but her…