The Story

Don’t Edit Your Story Too Much

I usually spend more time editing than I do writing. I edit and then I edit the hell heck out of anything I post because I care about what people think too much. I do this in other areas of life. Editing life through controlling what the outside world sees. The editing process has value, yet… Continue reading Don’t Edit Your Story Too Much

Character · Family

A Daughter’s Dream

     Parenting is a strange process. You spend 18 or so years preparing children, parts of your own soul, to go out into the world and be independent thinkers and dreamers. And then you wake up one day and realize they have, and it’s absolutely terrifying. Control? Gone. At some point children wander across… Continue reading A Daughter’s Dream

Books · Movies · The Story

Flying Books? Yes, Please!

I want to introduce you to a new friend of mine. Actually, formally introduce you that is, since I wrote about him in a letter to a friend in my last post. His name is Morris, of The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. He stars in the Academy Award winning Best Animated Short Film,… Continue reading Flying Books? Yes, Please!