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Write your Story, by living like the MC

Every life is a story. Not metaphorically. Literally. A sequence of choices, events, and moments that only make sense when you zoom out far enough to see the whole narrative. But we rarely see it that way because we live inside it every day. We get caught doing the same things repeatedly. A life of […]

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Few Readers and a Promise 

The routines, doubts, and small victories that keep me writing  I’ll admit it: the past two years of writing have been hard. The constant thinking, the pressure to create something new every week, and the quiet tug-of-war between nonfiction and my urge to write fiction, it all adds up.  I’m at a point where I sometimes want […]

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A Year of Words, Work, and Waking Up

Before becoming serious about my writing, my life revolved around my work in the casino industry. I worked weekends instead of weekdays, ten to twelve hours from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. The opposite of a normal human being, I guess. I never really felt any negative effects of working night shifts, or graveyards as […]

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We have too much to do, worry not 

“It’s not about abandoning the idea of fear and hope, it’s about understanding that both contain a dangerous amount of worry within” ~ Ryan Holiday  Hope – noun; a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.  Fear – noun; an unpleasant feeling or emotion caused by the belief that someone or […]

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Plane Cabin Reflections

Time Flies – After visiting family overseas, I felt a profound grief looking at pictures of my family, my little sisters and cousins, who were 8 and 9, are now in their teens and 20s were gone for good. I look at my grandparents and parents the same way, that every day I’m losing them, […]