“I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.”
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Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.
My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30, 000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
