The Courage to Live It

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A Man Named Brownie
I wrote this a week ago at the fair—now it is over for another year. And I have thoughts about that too, about it being over and how strange it is to…
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When You Forget What Someone Looks Like
And how things are always changing
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Going About the World, Finding Wonderful Hours
On the end of summer and feeling found again
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Maybe It's Time to Let the Old Ways Die
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That Thing I Never Should Have Done
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Never Go To Bed Angry, Don't Watch Screens at Bedtime, and Other Various Pieces of Advice that Occasionally Fall Apart in the Face of Real…
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Finding My Way Back
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Living a Life That Has No Rational Explanation
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Our Family's 65-Year-Old Tradition
We’re entering into fair season, and I was trying to figure out how to give some of you who are new here a feel for what these five weeks in August and…
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So You Want to be a Writer
Authentic art requires you to do what inspires you and trust that a community of like-minded fans will find you
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One Bright Star
Something I wrote one week before Lucy left for college.
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Maybe It's Time to Let the Old Ways Die
2023: The Year of Quitting Things, Including Writing
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The Baby in Our Family is Seven
On losses, and wonderful days, and the passing of time
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Finding My Way Back
Two pieces of writing advice that are also helpful for when we feel stuck in life
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A Place We've Gone Every Year for the Last Eighteen Years
We are here for less than fifteen minutes and already a handful of kids are running out the back door with fishing rods, and three teens are sprawled…
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The Courage to Live It
The Courage to Live It
"If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it." John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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