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The other evening, my wife, Jacquie, and I went to see Shakespeare’s Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre here in D.C. It was simply . . . spectacular.  Kenneth Branagh is one of my favorite Shakespearean authors.  His Hamlet is one of the best performances and movies of all time and his role of Iago in [...]

I’m pretty confident that right now there is something inside of you that you’ve wanted to do, but you just haven’t. It may be the desire to change jobs, write a book, get in shape, start a business, travel to a distant paradise or place, meet someone,  get a new degree, move to a new [...]

On the plane to Cancun last week, I ended up sitting next to a writer.  Inevitably, our conversation focused on the art of writing—at which point, I asked her my typical question, "So, what was your greatest writing lesson?"  After she shared hers, she asked me, "So what was yours?"  My goes like this. When [...]

One of the great joys of blogging is that the blogosphere is filled with delicious morsels that pop up in unexpected places.  The other day, I was flowing a series of blog links when someone mentioned a book by Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, which isn’t about birds, but writing.  In fact, the subtitle of [...]