But life itself, now there's true comedy Eugene McCabe I am thinking about true comedy. True comedy as commentary that offers insight, connection, and understanding. True comedy as the stuff that softens, extends, and expands. True comedy as the s...

Writing by hand had failed. Typing festered hope. The typewriter was not a plaything. Christopher Nolan In the deepest, darkest, tucked away, sacred parts of me, writing has never been a plaything. Much like reading has connected me to life itself...

If poetry and the arts do anything, they fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney I embrace my inwardness. The parts of me that are soft and round and full. The parts of me that hold tightly and sweetly and kindly. The parts of me t...

Sentences become presents. Presents passed over back walls, outside the front gates, on the streets. Dorothy Nelson I am thinking about narrative gratitude. I am thinking about the deep gratitude I feel for words and story and connection and belon...