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When In Doubt, Sing Out

On November 7, 2025September 24, 2026 By Steve SampsonIn Formative Memories2 Comments

I learned a crucial lesson about kindness and compassion while Christmas caroling in a nursing home in 1983.

Are Resumes Ever True?

On February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 By Steve SampsonIn MusingsLeave a comment

Reflections on telling nonfiction from nonsense.

Why Words Matter

On July 16, 2017December 19, 2023 By Steve SampsonIn Words to the WiseLeave a comment

There's a very real sense in which words have conjured the world as we know it. Which is why we should treat them with care.

Life Is a True Story

On June 11, 2017September 16, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Fatherly Advice4 Comments

Your life is a story you get to write. You have to be true to the hard realities, but there's room for artistic license.

Your Mind is a Nonfiction Writer

On June 29, 2016November 20, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Words to the Wise3 Comments

Your mind is in the business of constantly creating stories. Are you editing them?

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