I Made This List Of Stuff That

I Have Sparred With Commenters As A Music Writer (on The Rumpus, Among Other Places, See E.g., My Review About Taylor Swift), And That Was Plenty Of Training!

I Do Think That Just About Whenever I Am Writing, Or More Accurately, Whenever I Have Written, I Feel Better And More At Peace As A Human Being. That Doesn't Mean, Unfortunately, That The Literary Product Is Any Good.

Sadness Is Simply Something To Be Treated With Antidepressant Meds And Otherwise Need Not Be Spoken Of.

I Believe That God Locates Himself At The Spot Where You Recognize Your Own Fallibility....and The Paradox Of It All Has Been That Whenever I Give Up I Seem To Do Better.

I Read A Lot Of 'the Canterbury Tales' On My Phone Last Year, Because I Was Cycling Between Three Different Editions, And I Needed To Have A Middle-of-the-night Edition For The Insomniac Reading.