Here is a stream of consciousness practice I use in the morning where I pick out storyworthy moments from the previous day.  It is very much a draft remembrance so don’t expect spit and polish.  Do expect spark and hellish.   My friend Charlene called last night on Zoom and told me a story about…

Steven Pressfield has a blog post series every Wednesday that he calls “Writing Wednesday”.  This is not idle advice, but big time experience, a knowledge powerplant, especially this week’s post where he lays out the thesis for his seminal writing book, The War of Art. In that work he describes his nemesis, Resistance, and outlines…

This is what we are up against as we curate the news. First, in the original Substack article referring to this graph, there is no immediate definition of  democracy and autocracy.  Arguably, the U.S. is no longer a democratic institution, rather it is an electoral autocracy, but we need to dig more here. Second, and…