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One Year After Declaring I’m a Writer

Fifty-two weeks. Three hundred sixty-five days. Hundreds of pages. What surprised me most is not what you think.

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Rehearsing the Identities We Inherit

Why changing your life requires changing the story underneath it.

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Why saying what you want out loud might change everything.

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Day 11 of 100—On dopamine crashes, January anxiety, and the madness hiding beneath the lights…

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Day 3 of 100 Poems: What’s in a ‘stache!? Some might say it’s a cultural symbol. Others might say it’s just facial hair. What do you think?

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What I am loving this summer, this week, this day…

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Day 2 of 100 Poems: Can you make poetry out of small talk?

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I set out to write a poem a day for one hundred days. A hate poem that turns to love? What would you write?