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“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s 10 no-bullshit tips, Henry Miller’s 11 commandments, Jack Kerouac’s 30 beliefs…

Are you yearning for someone to yearn for you? Well, “yearning” has been earning some more attention of late, calling for more learning about what yearning might really mean. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Over-apologizing shrinks you instead of endearing you to anyone. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Sometimes, when we slow down enough to really check in with ourselves and see the situation from a wider perspective, greater clarity has a way of finding us. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Higher education has an incentive problem: As universities compete for students, the pressure to accommodate and retain them can come into tension with academic standards. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

If someone disappoints you in a romantic relationship or a friendship, it might be because the expectations you set for them are too low Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Back in 2022 college swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th place in the 200-yard freestyle with Lia Thomas during the Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. While 5th place is a remarkable achievement at this level of competition, it would not have made the news except for the fact that Thomas is a transgender woman and…

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else … may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.” “I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for children,” he told Colbert….