Effort

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, British philanthropist and politician

Rewrite

Running Violations

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Stand Tall

The Familiar

"What I find to be very bad advice is the sappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply what we know we never grow." -Annie Proulx

Odd Melon

I don't know why my watermelon looks like a peanut.

Downtown CoMo Alley

Tour Bus Tunes

Ooops

Timeless

"The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was 12." -author Ray Bradbury

Age

Let There Be Light

Confusion

"I come from a kind of old-fashioned Midwest, and I live in a technocorporate, postironic, cool, late-late-late Eastern world. The two worlds hardly ever talk to each other, but they're completely, constantly talking to one another inside of me ... I have my parents talking to me in my head and then other parts of myself talking back." -author Jonathan Franzen

Messenger

"Hello, Boss. If you happen to see June, email June, tweet June, figure-eight June, or whatever you do these days, can you deliver a message?" -phone call from our delivery guy.

Smile Everyday

"I just want to breathe easy, sleep well, enjoy my work and have friends. I don't feel that is a lot to ask." -wise words from a friend.

Bananas

Do It Later

"Being a procrastinator isn't as bad as being, say, a serial killer." -interesting read from the WSJ about how to be a better procrastinator.

Eat Well

Simple Words

"I like to write simply and clearly. I never wanted to write for the guys I met in college; I wanted to write for the guys I grew up with who weren't literary sophisticates. I have an allergy to fancy writing." -Tom Perrotta

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Well

Path to Enlightenment

"Walking and writing are one activity... for a Rousseau or a William Wordsworth, the act of walking through the world was not primarily about the world itself; they were much more concerned with walking into their inner worlds." -article in The Guardian.

Fruit Crazy

This is how I feel about bananas.

Little Swimmers

On the Go

"I don't want to jaywalk, but really, no one drives down Fifth Street." -a co-worker makes a run for it.

Pardon Me

"Did those ROTC boys run you over?" -a cyclist passes me during my run this morning. Apparently he too had a tough time getting through the crowd of 50+ students doing their 6 a.m. drills on the MKT.

Put it behind you

Go.

The First

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." -Herman Melville

Perspective

"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." -James Baldwin

Yes Indeed