Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.