Stupid finger. Press publish already. Right before I post a tweet, a blog entry, or a Facebook comment, my finger stalls at the publish button and I have this conversation. In the world of emotion, I am standing on a promontory, the wind in my face, looking down into a valley thousands of feet below. Soon, I […]
I recently learned a startling piece of information: Apparently, when literary agents like your work, they call you. As a confirmed shy person, I thought, “You mean I will have to talk to her?” It was, I admit, a strange thought to have. What was I expecting, that we would
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It begins in early childhood. A hesitation, an impulse to hide from strangers. Ducking behind furniture when company comes. Perhaps it is genetic, a survival trait, that long ago may have protected the young from wild, hungry predators. As the toddler grows, she learns a new word: “shy.” There is something in how the word
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