Colin Wright's Blog, page 24

Thoughts on Conflict

We live in contentious times, and discourse will only become more impassioned in the coming years. Political tremors are upending the...

Ellipses

I’ve always believed in celebrating the accidental mispronunciation of a word rather than mocking or deriding it. Such accidents are...

The Subjectivity of Time

Time has passed differently for me since I arrived in Kansas. That’s not a statement about Kansas, but rather about...

Aware

It’s hard to know what to think sometimes. Perhaps the news seems unreliable, and you’re not sure what sources to... [image error]

Glimpsing the Palette

In many different dimensions of my life right now, I feel that I’m steppingback from a painting I’ve long studied,...

Habits

I’m writing a new nonfiction book, entitled Becoming Who We Need to Be, and though I don’t typically have any...

Revision

I’ve said before that going through the editing process for a book is like being beaten across the face with...

Ideal Speech Situation

I came across the term ideal speech situation the other day, while doing research for a podcast episode. The core...

Valuable Things

Possessions can make us happier, but only if we own the right things.

That Seems Interesting

The metrics we use to define success are just as vital as the steps we take to become successful.