I really love Anne Lamott. Actually, I really love her and her book, “Bird by Bird.” Lamott has a chapter in her book entitled, Perfectionism.
She writes:
“You set out to tell a story of some sort, to the tell truth as you feel it, because something is calling you do so. It calls you like the [...]
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10.28.09 by Jess Winter Leave a reply »Writing about death
10.11.09 by Jess Winter Leave a reply »Lately, I’ve been thinking about death and my past experiences with it. That is the topic of my stories. Death and how we care for the dead, the cost and the changing traditions. I just spent the last 40 minutes walking and watching Mallard ducks flutter their wings in a seductive dance for the ladies. [...]