It’s that horrible feeling when you sit down to write, but instead of finding that creative flow pouring out – you sit paralyzed, staring at your computer screen & seething at the impossible task of…words. Everybody who’s tried communicating with words has felt it: a paralyzing barrier between the idea you want to share & the ability to…

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Bailey taught me how finding your genuine voice is the most important thing - not the voice that others want you to have.

I want to tell you a story. It’s not my story, but it kind of still really is my story. Let me explain. In the most intimate ways, this story belongs to someone else; it has been her life and her stubborn brilliance that made these things happen. But! I’ve been walking along beside her life for…

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Rest in Peace: Alistair MacLeod. Thank you for the stories. Sometime less than 10 years ago and more than 5, I sat in a room full of other bookish Word Nerds, listening to the last lecture on a great Modern Canadian Literature novel. The lecture was given by one of the best teachers I’ve ever had.…

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