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Normal is such a tricky word. The word presents two double-edged syllables razoring through what we claim to expect while simultaneously dissecting the very banality that has become intolerable [...]

Stop for a moment and consider your story. Consider the narrative of your journey to this moment in time. As your mind wanders over your past, you begin to see themes and inflection points.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw. Stephen R. Covey Do you remember the days when you spent hours preparing? In a recent conversation with one of my nephews (now a [...]

In his autobiographical novel, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce powerfully describes the discovery of his vocation as a writer as a calling to notice epiphanies and describe [...]