This will not be updating for the near future

Due to changing jobs and now working for an animal shelter to coordinate adoptions outreach there, I no longer feel that it is ethical for me to keep up this blog.  I will keep it up for awhile because I may return to it in the future after more thought and after I become more comfortable with the ethical interplay between being a private blogger and an employee of a public shelter.

Thank you for reading.  I do miss writing here.

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StoryWonk Daily 180: Words As Tools

Today on StoryWonk Daily, we discuss the importance of personal style, clarity and emotional impact in our choice of words.

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Crochet Me the USS Enterprise*

Yesterday in the car, Alastair and I were having a talk about life, and the business, and what we’re about, where we want to go, what we want to do with our lives. We love StoryWonk not just because we’re talking about stories and narrative, which we are inexhaustibly geeky about, but because we’re living a life aligned with our passion, and it’s the way people should live their lives. It’s been an exhausting and stressful time these last few months since I quit my job and decided we had to make StoryWonk a real business, but it’s also been exciting and rewarding and just right. We spend hours every week thinking and talking about story and narrative, and we never get sick of it; it’s only right that we make our business about ...

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