My Sweet Dumb Brain

My Sweet Dumb Brain

Bird by bird and step by step

Just don’t tell me life is a marathon, ok?

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Katie Hawkins-Gaar
Sep 18, 2019
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Most anyone who’s read Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,” will remember the story that inspired the title. Anne recalls a childhood memory of her brother, who was 10…

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