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Walking down the steps of a tiny Tribeca restaurant earlier this year, about to meet Seth Godin for the first time, I wanted to die. Sweaty palms, dry mouth: the whole deal. I’d been reading his stuff for a few years, and I had an idea of who he…

I was an English major nerd, so writing papers was, you know, fun. It was fun because I got to make stuff up. There was always this moment after I had read the book or poem or essay, when it was time to let the little piece of inspiration drop into…

I’m having an inappropriate email relationship with someone. It started out innocently enough. But now, there’s coyness and innuendo. One of us is playing hard to get, and the other one has much, much higher expectations. I know that it won’t end…

It’s funny how you get what you’re looking for in the middle of looking for something else altogether. It happens all of the time. It’s just rare that we pay attention. Let me explain. Yesterday, I had a meeting that involved a long car…

For the past few nights, my four-year-old has been freaking out at bedtime. “I’m thinking of that commercial again, mommy,” he’ll say. It was a creepy fright-night type commercial that ran during Jeopardy last week, advertising a Halloween event…