motivation
I don’t know about you, but my chorus can become extremely loud without notice. And as to why they are mostly negative noises I leave to someone with more shrink training than I have. But make no mistake - everyone who starts writing has to deal with some form of Miss Grundy, often shouting “You call that a word??!!”
Read MoreDriving south into rural Maryland the four-lane highway, dotted with traffic lights, cleaves through strip malls offering the usual rural services in a recovering economy: bail bonds, pawn brokers, mortgage re-financing, pay day loans, and self- storage. It was the latter—sitting with my foot on the brake at a really long red light—that caught my attention.
Read MoreAt the top of the stairs, listening to my breath, I punch in the five number code, the red light turns green, there is a click, I open the door, I exhale and then inhale the air inside, a compound of old floor and new ideas. Once inside, I walk the eight steps down the hall, past the lockers on one side and the coat hooks on the other, and then I open the inner door and enter the room.
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