I posted my Annual Writing Review a while back, and it made me realize how much value there is in assessing what I’ve written. If writing is, as John Updike says, “nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has invented,” then reviewing it, revisiting the old projects, can tell us… Read More Writing Projects Over the Years
(Written two weeks after coming home.) Already I miss Korea. I was desperate to leave the situation I was in, but Korea itself was never the problem. I miss walking up the uneven sidewalk to the crosswalk, where I always waited. Sometimes I waited with others, sweat pouring off me in the summer humidity. Sometimes… Read More Korea: Looking Back
“Becomes less anxious by not caring so much about your anxious thoughts and feelings (let them be and don’t fight them).” The above tip is from Stephen Guise‘s book, How to Be an Imperfectionist. I did a full review for the book here. (Just let me say that if you’ve ever struggled in life by being a… Read More Overcoming Anxiety: A Tip From an Imperfectionist
Dear 2018, I don’t expect a lot from you. Actually, I guess I do. I expect you to make me better. Well, I expect me to help myself get better, with the aid of some doctors and things. But really, I’m hoping I won’t have to go for your big sis 2019 too. That would… Read More Dear 2018: The Year of Healing
June 26 It’s been nearly a week. I’m home on vacation now, trying not to think about the fact that my week is nearly taken up by meetings with friends and appointments and how much that stresses me out. One day I will plan a vacation with actually nothing. But I suppose it’s good to… Read More Excerpts from my journal; Late June 2017
