Knuckling Down to the Hard Work of Writing
My Dad had some choice 1930s phrases for exhorting us to work hard and act with integrity:
“Knuckle down!”
“Put some elbow
July 2008 Archives
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Dogs & Dolphins
It’s a joy to present the Second Place Winner in our Soul Shelter First-Person Essay Award. Writer Yuvi Zalkow receives $500 for
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Making Money: The Right and Wrong Questions to Ask
Readers Steve and Sean dropped by the house the other day for coffee and a chat. We talked about Portland,
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Three Books on the Perils of the Internet
“After several generations of ‘technological improvement’… we have become a people who cannot think about anything important.”
—Wendell BerryThe Internet is
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The Truth About Quitting and other winners
We received well over three hundred entries to our essay contest, and today announce the winners. All the prize checks
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Creativity Vs. Commerce: Stalking the Spotlight
Do actors have it the hardest of anybody seeking to balance fortune and fulfillment? We’re all familiar with the image
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The Soul of an Entrepreneur, the DNA of a Business
— It’s not about you —
Derek Sivers had a problem.
As the leader of a successful touring band, he needed a
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Jack London on Upward Mobility
(This post is an installment of CommonSensical.)
In his essay “What Life Means to Me” (1905), the American novelist Jack London
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Twenty-Seven Years of Zen Destroyed My Life
There’s lots of Zen this and Zen that traversing the blog-o- and book-o-spheres these days, but few offerings have delighted
