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Atomic Habits Revisited: A Two-Year Late Update on My 2021 Goals
I’ve re-embraced the promise of Atomic Habits since my first read-through–that by changing and directing my habits in their minutiae, by changing my systems, I’ll get where I want to go, and continue becoming who I want to be.
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The Gift of Isolation (or How I Wrote 200k Words in 3 Years)
If it wasn’t a text it was a phone call. And if it was neither, it was an email. Are you working on it yet? Tell me when you start. I see you online, where are you? I don’t see you online, where are you? My dad was a benevolent taskmaster; some days it was easy to forget he was also my client.
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I Suspect My Dad Raised Me to Rewrite His Book: On Harnessing Words of Dis/Encouragement
Much of what I was reading voraciously at the time could be called uninspired, but it scratched an itch, gave me something to mimic, and it was published. I wanted more than anything to do what those authors had done and smell my own words mixed with that pulp potpourri.
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Prone to Swoons: How Not to Write Cliche When You Are One
I blue-screened in front of the mirror, addled by a full day of beer and wine and a prolonged period of undereating. My body just didn’t have enough of what it needed to keep me conscious right then, overwhelmed as it had been many times before: after my wisdom tooth surgery, four-wheeling accident, childhood fever. I swooned, as I have discovered myself prone to do.
