James Shelley with an idea worth considering, never leave the house without a book
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Julian Summerhayes gives you some reasons to keep a blog.
Somebody had to get her first reading glasses this week. Here she is reading Sarafina and The Black Cloak. #raisingareader ?
Any pen is the right pen. Any paper, is the right paper. Just write.
Today on The Cramped, I wrote in defense of cheap.
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin
Austin Kleon thinks about the very idea of “work-life balance” and it largely syncs with mine. As a writer, I don’t balance the two because they are one in the same. Living is my work.
Truth.
Onward for The Cramped. A declaration of intention and restatement of mission.
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
— George Lois
Strategizing renewed attention to The Cramped. As a start, I updated my tools for the What We Use page. More to come.