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Friendship Can Be Like Dating
A friend recently shared an article entitled “The Curse of the Connector.” Its tagline? “It’s easy to never be alone and yet very lonely.” The writer describes a glamorous Gatsby whirlwind of life in...
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On Dancing, Courage, and Starting Over
I spent last weekend at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the conference is how to live a remarkable life in a conventional world. I could write so many essays about things...
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The Care and Feeding of Long Distance Friends
Shortly after I published Friendship Can Be Like Dating, I received a text from a long-distance friend of mine. How did internet friendships play into my theories, he wanted to know. He had a point....
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On Panels, Achievable Goals, and Creative Isolation
Now that I’m back home from ConFusion, and after talking a bit about impostor syndrome, a few of you might be wondering how my panels went. Short answer: I had a great time! Longer answer: Once I was...
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Come As You Aren’t, My Friends
I’ve been meaning to write about my birthday party, which happened a few weeks ago at this point. The theme was “Come as you aren’t,” a brilliant idea that was originally suggested by my friend Mike on...
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My Writer Community, and WFC
This week I’m going to the World Fantasy Convention, and I’ve sat here trying not to write about it and to write about something else instead, but my focus is already over there in DC, so I’ve decided...
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In which I party with the Buddhists
This weekend I went to a party that was basically a room full of Buddhists…and me. Does that sound like the set-up for a joke? Anyway, I really enjoyed hanging out with these people because they were...
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Thank You for Feeding My Heart
I remember wishing for a support system. I don’t remember exactly when this was. It couldn’t have been high school because I didn’t aspire to anything as lofty as a support system in those years. So it...
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When You Have Nowhere to Go for the Holidays: A Meditation on Loneliness
I remember the first holiday when I had nowhere to go. I was twenty-two years old. I had just graduated from college, and in a few weeks I was moving to London. It was Christmastime. It would have been...
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I Found My People So Now I Can Chill Out a Little
A year ago I imagined a better life for myself. I didn’t really believe it could happen, but I did believe it was what I wanted. So it was worth going all out for, even though I thought my efforts...
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