Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Television wasn’t getting rid of animals, but they were no longer cast as creatures that were omniscient and heroic. They were talking horses like Mr Ed or an absurdist pig like Arnold Ziffle…Just like the...

I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that...