“If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for a few friends, get a blog. But if you want to write for a lot of people, think about them a little bit. What do they like? What are their needs? A lot of people in this country go [...]

Being a poser is one of life’s great temptations. I should know. I’m so well versed in its siren song that I deserve a Grammy.
We want other people to like us and spend a lot of time, money, and effort trying to be what we think others want. Others who don’t really think about us [...]

“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer– they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which [...]

Do not resist chances. Take them like vitamins.
Let go of the brakes. See what happens if you go five more miles.
Foot bridges be damned, find your own way across.
Don’t worry about the bumps and bruises. Your body can take them.
Don’t steer around the bits that scare you. Go over them. Go through them.
Do something the [...]