My daughter caught my attention. “But I want it to be perfect.” It was a moment of awakening. My daughter's innocent desire for perfection echoed my own inner struggle, a battle I’ve been fighting for years. The realization that this ideal of perfection was already...
Sometimes, achieving success can feel like a maze. Decisions that don’t work out, choices that make us unhappy, shots in the dark that make us look foolish; all these outcomes keep us on edge. But there is a solution: be yourself. I’ve always felt, still feel, and...
A friend of mine, a buyer for a major bookstore chain, told me that when book sales reps come into her office, the rep has around thirty seconds per title to sell her a book title. First, as a writer, that’s frightening, but I started thinking about that. Thirty...