Do Not To Be As Shy Around

For The Better Part Of My Adult Life, I Proudly Avoided Nerd/nimrod/goober Status. I Was Always Just Cool Enough.

Sending A Handwritten Letter Is Becoming Such An Anomaly. It's Disappearing. My Mom Is The Only One Who Still Writes Me Letters. And There's Something Visceral About Opening A Letter - I See Her On The Page. I See Her In Her Handwriting.

Instead Of Telling Our Young People To Plan Ahead, We Should Tell Them To Plan To Be Surprised.

I Look At Improvising As A Prolonged Game Of Chess. There's An Opening Gambit With Your Pawn In A Complex Game I Have With One Character, And Lots Of Side Games With Other Characters, And Another Game With Myself - And In Each Game You Make All These Tiny, Tiny Moves That Get You To The Endgame.

I’m Not Good With Pickup Lines Or Flirting. I Don’t Have That Kind Of Self-confidence Or Natural Charisma.