What We Pass Down: On Books, Handwriting, and What We Leave Behind
There is a box of my mother’s books in my office I have not been able to open. On personal libraries, marginalia, and why books are the real heirlooms.
Traditions Reimagined: Rituals Without Borders
30 years as a digital nomad taught me this: the haka, the sauna, the drum, the passeggiata, the forest. Rituals are portable. Here is how to bring them home.
The Stories We Carry
Older than language, stronger than borders. Why storytelling is the only tradition that belongs to everyone and excludes no one.
Writing as Healing: The Quiet Medicine of Telling the Truth
I was a child processing death in the late 80s, before anyone had language for it. So I wrote. Here is what writing actually does to grief.
The Quiet Ones Move the World
The advisors, the writers, the fixers, the ghostwriters. The people who never need the spotlight are the ones holding the whole thing up.
Finding Your Inner Voice (and Your Next Bestseller)
Someday is not a real day. Why a writers retreat is the fastest way to shut out the noise, find your voice and finally get the book onto the page.
I’m Still Becoming
At my strongest I could squat 360 pounds. This year I can barely raise my arm. On bodies, change, and what a retreat actually hands you.
A Feast for the Stars
Matariki, the Maori New Year, rises in the coldest week of winter and rewrites what nourishment means. What it teaches anyone who gathers people for a living.
You Have More Than One Hunger
A small shelf of books, one for each of the appetites we forget we have. Body, mind, money, soul and spirit.
There’s Now a Logo That Proves a Machine Didn’t Write Your Book
The Authors Guild will certify that no machine wrote your book. It says nothing about whether you did. A ghostwriter on the clause the whole industry is too squeamish to write.
Why Every Createcation Is Capped at 6 Writers
Capping at 6 is a worse business decision than capping at 20. It is the one I keep making, and here is why.
You Think Everyone Knows This. They Don’t.
200 authors, the same 6 words every time, and they have been wrong every single time. Why being brilliant at something makes you the worst possible judge of what’s worth saying about it.