A place of opulence; a graveyard of things. — It’s strange how it’s usually the top drawer. The most convenient place in your house that stores the things that you almost never need. It’s a place where memories live, and things go to die. …

A mini case study of how I got published in Better Humans — We all have those publications that we aspire to have our stories published in. We make lists, and then begin drafts, polish them up real nice and then finally submit them. The most common thing that will happen next is that we will get rejected. If you’re a new writer…

If you’re reluctant to work on your memoir, consider how it can help you answer job interview questions, write a brand story, and more — The other night I had a conversation with a woman who is 20 years younger than me. I was instantly transported back to a younger version of myself. We were talking about writing: why we torture ourselves to do it, what makes us want to do it, why we bother…

What a decade of working in podcasting has taught me — Please complete this sentence: I discovered podcasts when… What’s wild is that you likely can put a definitive timestamp on that moment. I doubt you can say the same thing about ANY other medium. You can’t say…I discovered books when…because you were too young to remember when the first book…

The tested method that worked for my narrative podcast — As my Auntie recently reminded me, so very eloquently: If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all… And while that’s been true on more than a few occasions these last few years, I do not want to paint myself as someone entirely down on my luck…

I’ve made this mistake…here’s 5 steps to get a new name that works — After I had spent years working to finish a big project, a word came to me: Escape. This was the verb and the noun that I felt best described exactly how I felt, at that exact moment. Something had finally escaped from way deep inside of me. What was it? …

I got shingles last week, and I’m only 49 — No, I don’t mean shingles that go on your roof. Not the asphalt ones, not the fancy cedar shakes, and not the brown clay Marley roofing tiles, either. I mean the shingle virus, technically known as herpes zoster, which is actually caused by the latent varicella-zoster virus — the same…

Here’s a playlist to celebrate — Psst….have you discovered narrative podcasts yet? Let me help you by introducing you to the genre. What are narrative podcasts? They are serialized stories, told over multiple episodes. They are original works, not second-hand work adapted from some other thing. They are intimate and personable. When you listen to them, you feel like they…