Is it possible to write too much? I remember asking a famous scholar once about something he had written. He couldn’t remember it. In his defense he said, “You know, you write so much.” I’m not a young man, and I think I’m finally starting to see what he meant. In addition to this blog, I write another under my actual name. I’ve been doing for about six years. The other day I recalled a somewhat funny thing I’d written (or so it seemed to me) but I couldn’t find it. I tried searching the blog with every possible keyword I could imagine. Nothing helped. I couldn’t remember what I was writing about, or even the exact wording of the phrase. It was a powerful image, though, and I wanted to find it. Even in these days of “lasers in the jungle” you can’t find a phrase when you need to. Maybe the problem is I write too much. I write every day. I pretty much have since I was a teenager. My advice to...
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