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One of my favorite grown-up things to do is talk to groups of students about writing as a career. I love it when I get to tell them: “Hey, you know all of those people who say that you can’t make a good living as a writer? Ignore them all. They are…

Football isn’t really my sport. Except there are two things I love to watch. First is when there’s a bunch of fancy action, and suddenly there’s a guy with a ball who is running right through people, creating holes to move where there are no…

Do you ever have thoughts in your head that are the exact opposite of what you strive to be about? (I’m loving that it’s a New Year, but I assume you’ve done all of your celebrating, so I’m just going to jump right in.) So, where were we? Ah,…

As I drove by the house around the corner last Thursday morning, I saw the bulldozer at the ready. A late 1940s house built during that post-World War II boom, it was a house not unlike my own 1940s Cape Cod. Except it was about to go bye-bye, so that a…

For years, I neatly printed my list of deadlines on the tiny orange dry erase board that hangs above my desk. It was a checklist-at-a-glance. (I love lists.) But earlier this year, I realized something: I already had a day planner that detailed out my…