Random Things People Said to Me at My Dad’s Funeral
carriejonesbooks My dad died a few years ago. He was an awesome hobbit dad. He lasted less than two weeks from his lung cancer diagnosis (which happened on the day of…
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How to Survive Stupid Writing Advice
This week I got an Instagram message from a man selling his copyediting services and there were five incredibly obvious typos in his pitch. I’m talking about two words combined,…
The Good That Happens Even In the Middle of Evil: The Boston Marathon
It’s been six years since the Boston Marathon. This is what I posted that day. It’s about what I saw and heard and felt. So, I was at the Boston…
Finding Hope Despite Everything
The clunky sound of metal hitting metal makes all the customers at The Wilderness turn to look out the restaurant’s big front glass windows and onto the Main Street of…
Imposter Syndrome, Again
I was on the #writingcommunity Twitter feed while I was traveling back home yesterday, and I noticed so many people feeling like imposters, worried that they weren’t following the writing…