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Gomez has a simple job in life, but he gives it his all. How about you? http://www.flickr.com/photos/intangible/ / CC BY 2.0 I like life lessons that are simple enough to apply across the board, and they don’t get much more stripped-down than lessons you can learn from boxing. Win or lose, there’s something every [...] Early last month I had the agonizing good fortune of cracking open a notebook from the mid-1990s. In one section I’d spent several months following some advice whose source I’ve since forgotten: keeping a log of daily writing progress. One day per line, bonehead-simple entries: date, project(s), page numbers, tally. Cue reaction, January 2010: Holy hell! Look [...] As 2009 was skidding into history’s ditch, it was a stellar way to wrap up a year, with all the makings of a buddy movie. Two friends — adoptive brothers, really — trekking hundreds of winter-lashed miles to attend the wedding of a third. Both the bride and groom live in Los Angeles, as does a [...] Last month I sang the praises of turning tail and running the other way the moment the going gets tough. Okay, not exactly. Oversimplification. More like the praises of putting a troublesome project on hold while you wander off for an indeterminate period, doing other things, new things, shiny things, so you can later return to [...] Looks like it was a sabbatical after all. Last March, after close to a three-year tenure, I hung up my Storytellers U hat — the one with the Viking horns and a beer funnel — without knowing whether this would be permanent or temporary. Couldn’t help but notice, in the interim, that lords-of-the-manor [...] |
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