Comparison is the thief of joy. One of the rookie players on my favorite basketball team said that quote last night. And it’s true. Hard to adhere to the lesson it’s getting at, but nonetheless true. Hard, because in so many ways, we must compare. Comparisons are a...

Stories are hard. So much of the time, the work isn’t quite there. The pieces are, but it doesn’t all come together the way it needs to. This happens at various levels, obviously. Sometimes it’s an unmitigated disaster. Sometimes it’s so close that we can shrug off...

So, I feel the hankering to watch 100 movies this year; to do that challenge. Starting off SUPER slow. I’ve been so busy. I eased off the busy today. I still got up on time, had a solid writing session, though not a spectacular one—I didn’t push hard to make progress,...