I went for a year and a half without a computer of my own. I didn't read much during that time – I was repairing key parts of my nervous system and couldn't use those functions very much. I didn't have a smartphone. I'...
This book came up in CBfG (Children's Books for Grown-Ups). Part of the format of CBfG is that you can either read a picture book or tell a given story in your own words.
The toymaker father is the "good" one, the one Olivia prefers to identify as her father, but in this story, he's the aspect that's gone missing.
living things > stone
My trip to Ireland in 2018 was a balm to my soul. I drove around a lot on little back roads. I took a hot seaweed bath. I cried at Knock Shrine for about an hour and a half and I climbed Knocknarea. I found as many holy wells as...
When I looked at this story, it changed my understanding of the nature of fiction and it changed my values around the writing of fiction and fantasy.
Others can feel how you focus.
Positive examples that have helped me ferret out a sense of my own masculine.