The angles and positioning of its windows and roofing made everyday dim. The rest of town could be spending their day swimming, jumping over sprinklers, and sipping lemonade under parasols, and yet while inside this house, such conditions would feel about as real as a TV ad.

Ivan watched a lot...

High achievement is probably most difficult because of how humiliating it is. The path requires many moments where you let go of who you are right now, confident that you can be someone better tomorrow. 

Often times I feel like I'm quite sharp. I may go months feeling like I'm...

There's a strategy I've seen mentioned independently by some of the most prolific writers. John Swartzwelder puts it best here:

But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all...

One time I ran into Trevor while he was staying at Ivan's. We -- Trevor and I -- had plans to hang out and I was surprised when I saw the address. Not that I was aware of where Ivan lived, but because I knew where Trevor had lived but...

I hope one lasting consequence of COVID in the U.S is a blurring of work-time.

There's a saying like fish in water to mean sometimes you don't know something you're so ingrained within. The concept of work-time has been something I've been fish-in-water for.

I can recall instances in the past...

During the golden days of 200WAD , a warm sense of belonging blanketed me anytime I logged on. I knew there would be people who had posted new things that I could comment on. There'd most likely be comments and conversations developing either on my posts or somewhere else. It...

Whether you write here everyday or sometimes, rarely, or even one-and-done, if you're reading this I appreciate you being here. It most likely means that you want to write something. Maybe you don't know what that something is, but you could easily tell me who your favorite writers are. Strange...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then writing a thought down for one day is worth a thousand days of having it tumble around in our heads. I've found the act of reflection much more active than I once assumed. I had thought it was about consuming information...

One of the treasures of learning about other cultures is all the badasses you get to learn about. No matter what context, there's always a subjective evil that needs to be fought. And when there's evil that needs fighting you get badasses. 

Growing up in the states I wanted to...

OpenerBesides a mug of earl gray rooibos , there were few different things on her tabletop. An Organic Chemistry textbook and a stack of marked index cards. If a friend could peer through her second story window they would guess that she had staged the scene for a Facebook photo...