I am elated to welcome Jesse Stanchak, creator of Micro Flash Fiction (@MicroFlashFic) and author of “The Tyranny of Sand…
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“You should get married”: This policy makes no sense
My friend, Yolanda Gordon, gave a TEDx talk (“The Poverty Pandemic”) in Rock Hill, S.C., on Nov. 13. Yolanda described…
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Don’t let your mind wander!
WANDER: If you’re letting your phone give you directions on the back roads of middle Georgia, that’s fine (usually). However,…
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Why are there kids in the Darien Gap? And other SmartBrief stories
The upside of having a job where the main goal is to distill complex stories into two-sentence summaries is that…
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WORTHY: 31 days of 5-minute free writes
I have an email that I need to write for work today that I’ve been dragging my feet on. At…
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TRUST: 31 days of 5-minute free writes
Today, I was driving home from my niece’s soccer game. I was driving west, and the sun was shining directly…
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