To Be A Man, A Boy Must

Write Every Day; Never Give Up; It's Supposed To Be Difficult; Try To Find Some Pleasure And Reward In The Act Of Writing, Because You Can't Look For Praise From Editors, Readers, Or Critics. In Other Words, Tips That Are Much Easier To Give Than To Take.

To Be A Man, A Boy Must See A Man

Long Before It Legally Served Me, The Bar Saved Me. It Restored My Faith When I Was A Boy, Tended Me As A Teenager, And When I Was A Young Man The Bar Embraced Me.

Beer Is Amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A Beverage, But Also A Meal.

I Began Dividing Life In Absolutes... Things And People Were Either Perfectly Bad, Or Perfectly Good, And When Life Didn't Obey This Black-and-white Rule, When Things Or People Were Complex Or Contradictory, I Pretended Otherwise. I Turned Every Defeat Into A Disaster, Every Success Into An Epic Triumph, And Separated All People Into Heroes Or Villains. Unable To Bear Ambiguity, I Built A Barricade Of Delusions Against It.