Search by tag «On Writing and Not»
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Who’s the Asshole?
The Psychopathology of Free Writing
“Does right always start off right?”
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Don’t Pimp Your Kid
On Sharing: Priorities & Perspective
“My kids are funny when they fart.”
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Unity & Coherence
Some Who Can Teach
“I wonder if he would even remember me, an odd blip of a student, a quietly disobedient boy from another time and place?”
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I’m Not Dostoevsky
On Wallowing, Executive Dysfunction, & Other Mishigas
"I am not a sick man. I am not a spiteful man. I am not an unpleasant man. My liver, as far as I know, is in excellent health."
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Not Too Optimistic
Assessing “The Project” Now & Into the Future
“Most people should not be home schooled, my dad says, and I agree.”
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Sloth Daddy
Right Back at You, Tiger Mother
“Once you start down that road—race to the top, race to nowhere, go, go, go!—it’s night near impossible to reverse course.”
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Listing
Abe the Cat, Kafka, Johnny Cash, My Father, etc.
“I become passive, overwhelmed, immobilized. I elude myself, my purpose defeated.”
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Where I’m From
Writing Is Destiny
“I am made of my over-reactive mom and my under-reactive dad.”
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Over the Rainbow
On Writing (Or Not) One Day At a Time
“The gist of the story is that if, and who can argue with this, a writer is “one who writes,” then I was barely one.
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Project Morris
Writing, Creativity, Process: Like Father, Like Son
“Unlike perspiration, inspiration is unpredictable; it is dependent on the complex brain and not the relatively simple body.”
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