Sublime

you have someone who has been impatiently waiting to read your novel—a spouse, let’s say, someone who has perhaps been working nine to five and helping to pay the bills while you chase your dream—then this is the time to give up the goods… if, that is, your first reader or readers will promise not to talk to you about the book until you are ready t

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"and you must be desperately homesick."

At first, I stare at her blankly, and then I blurt, “You’re nuts.” “I know.” She grins wider. “Cade says it’s one of my best qualities. Well”—her head tilts in consideration—“and my tits.” I can’t help it. All my tension bubbles over and I laugh.

This is how I discovered that the secret to life is little books. Over the last few years, I’ve now written many. And what began as an exercise in parenting my child ended up becoming something closer to a meditation challenge for me: take any potentially anxiety-provoking situation, and imagine explaining it via the most calming haiku possible.

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