I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!
Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just. . . try.
Dante. Oh,Dante. Seal me!Seal me so hard!. He grabs my hips andpumps his toward mine. Oh,Dante! You're so hot when you seal souls. I shove my idiot-of-a-best-friend off me and laugh. What the hell was that? I ask. My new move.
I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.
When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.
If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.
This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.
Ultimately journalism has changed. . . partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.
I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they are appalled by it.
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.