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  • ...n fifteen years ... I'm finding it hard to separate what I'd like life to be like for us from what it looks like life might be for us. I am also concerned with what our present day pre...
  • ...ng forward to reading that one! Dhana, these are the kinds of insidious worries that start to spin us out of control. I doubt Cheryl Strayed is concerned about her health insurance at...
  • Now that you've started writing poetry, maybe the floodgates will open! :) Sounds to me that you were so concerned about writing great poetry that you didn't allow yourself to have fun with it before. Just relax, have fun, you'll get better over time!
  • ...l to read something so thoughtful, no worries about the length, when the content is good! I had this same feeling for awhile, and have been very concerned about this discounting. But t...
  • Really thoughtful post, Ellen. Thanks for sharing your approach and concerns. As a fellow white woman deeply concerned with the entrenched racism in our country (and within ourselves), I appreciate your willingness to confront it on the page and learn from the experience. 
  • ...e has been there for a very long time with the complicit inaction of university administration and alumni, especially where football players are concerned.  Can't wait to read "Again a...
  • ...le books. Anne Lamott's Help, Thanks, Wow, for instance, is 112 pages. I would guess that it's about 30,000 words. The only thing a publisher is concerned about when it comes to a shor...
  • ...ters they publish? Are they real editors, or are they struggling writers themselves? Will they give my work time and attention, or are they more concerned with their own work? But the...
  • ...ense of the word "therapeut", the Greek word which has to do with healing of the soul. How could writing - or creative work of any sort - not be concerned with soul?  Or with conscious...
  • Your essay was right on as far as I'm concerned. You did a great job of identifying and describing the realities of divorce when there are children. Well written and right on the mark. Thanks for sharing.