The fairytale ended too soon — “I want a divorce,” my wife said. This wasn’t part of the script. I’ve always believed in fairytales and happy endings. I believe in shooting stars and pumpkin carriages. My wife saw something different in lurking our marriage. The love between us had started fading years before. It disappeared so…

I see so many people doing this — You can lose a lot more weight when you get informed about calorie burn. Now that I understand an appropriate diet for my height and level of exercise, it’s been much easier to lose weight and keep it off. I’ve been overweight for much of my adult life, and it’s…

He knew my name — “Are you David?” he said. He looked about 50 years old. On his nose perched rimless glasses, behind which he had kind but tired eyes. He wore the navy blue uniform of the bus company he worked for. Beneath his blue sweater was a carefully pressed white shirt. He had…

I didn’t plan to take a break, but it happened anyway — In nine months, I’d written over 150 articles, more than 20 short stories, and a handful of poems. All in the evenings and weekends, alongside a full-time job. Every spare moment I had, I’d pick up my phone, or my laptop, and I’d get words onto the page. I shocked…

I jumped off the hamster wheel, but it wasn’t always easy — I quit high school at the age of 16. I was too young to make a forever decision. Yet that’s what I did. From that moment, I was a high school dropout. I had no idea what I would do next. I left behind friends, teachers I admired, and a…

So I emptied my bookshelf — Today I filled a garbage sack full of self-help books and took them to a local secondhand bookstore. I’m fed up with them haunting my life and polluting my mind. They can bother someone else’s bookshelf. I didn’t get rid of every self-help book. It’s a genre that’s given much…

7 proven methods that really work — When I started my career as a freelance writer over a decade ago, one question bothered me more than any other: “How do I find freelance clients?” I read several books on the topic. In the end I discovered there’s no magic formula. …

I hate to imagine how many years I’ve lost — It’s one of my biggest regrets, and goodness knows how many years of life it has cost me. I literally mean I’m likely to die earlier than I would have otherwise because of this. Between my late teens and my early 30s, I told myself a stupid lie that damaged…

The life-changing magic of publishing drafts — Last month, I set myself a mission to clean up my backlog of unfinished articles. I had over 40 articles I wanted to release from my drafts folder and share with the world. And gosh, it worked! I received the most I’ve ever earned for a single article. The oldest…