Personal Essay

This is some of the most popular stuff I wrote and published in 2021. These are some of the short stories, essays, and poetry that bubbled up into my brain and made it onto the page and out into the world. Enjoy.

A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column. A young woman goes through the five stages of ghosting grief. A man's promising fourth date ends in the emergency room. A female lawyer with bipolar disorder experiences the highs and lows of dating. A widower hesitates about introducing his children to his new girlfriend. A divorcée in her 70s looks back at the beauty and rubble of past relationships.

Rediscover the power of perspective with heartfelt stories from people who went through unthinkable circumstances - but came out ahead. This book will motivate you, inspire you, and help you see life from a fresh new lens. Each carefully worded story lets you peer into someone's soul and see how they came out of tough times with their head held high. You're sure to find a story that resonates with you; you owe it to yourself.

This is a collection of short stories and essays on a variety of subjects from the scientific and technical to the humorous and childhood memories, from sasquatch and bigfoot to personal relationships. It is a volume of easy listening, sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant, but always worthwhile.

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn't love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn't jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

滋賀県愛あふるるエッセイ。琵琶湖が何県にあるのか知らない人が実は多い、「千葉」や「佐賀」とよく間違えられる、比叡山延暦寺があるのは京都じゃない――

Furiose Essays über die Liebe von einer der originellsten Stimmen der Gegenwart. Wen begehren wir? Und was erzählt unser Begehren über uns? Wie hängen Lust, Leidenschaft und Liebe zusammen? In ihrem neuen Band Liebe und andere Neurosen schreibt Katja Eichinger in zehn elektrisierenden Essays über das Wechselspiel zwischen Verlangen und Verunsicherung. Sie erzählt Familiengeschichten wie die ihrer Urgroßmutter, die ihre Leben lang unter dem Apfelbaum stand und von dem armen Handwerker träumte, den sie nicht heiraten durfte.

Epic is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve your communication skills. What is the engine of communication? Creativity. The creative person sees the bigger picture and uses that vision to create tools, insights, and processes that will benefit others.

The Comeback Kid is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to build your emotional resilience. We are not defined by our losses, we are defined by how we rise back up despite our losses. Each time we bounce back, each time we become tougher to kill. Turn your setbacks into legendary comebacks.

Built for More is a collection of short stories, essays, and insights to help you improve your soft skills. Learn to think clear and speak even clearer. Each entry is meant to fuel your logic and imagination so you are better equipped to deal with people.

Tough Love is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. Knowledge which has the most practical value is not easy to learn because it challenges a lot of pre-existing paradigms. Therefore, Tough Love introduces the listener to knowledge that will lead to becoming a high valued member of society to create a long-lasting legacy.

下巻は、様々な雑誌に寄せたエッセイや、シナリオ応募から小説家デビューまでを綴った連載など。こうして作家・湊かなえは誕生した！　ファン待望の、ベストセラー作家の初エッセイ集！

Man's best friend. Through laughter, tears, and moments of reflection, listeners are invited to join Mann on a journey of love, loss, and the enduring bond between humans and dogs. Whether you're seeking insights into dog training tricks, easy-to-follow methods, or clicker training techniques, this easy dog training book is your comprehensive guide. Top dog training. Discover the joy of teaching your dog new tricks and strengthen your bond through simple yet effective training methods.

What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book brings together a selection of powerful reflections exploring the black British male experience and what it really means to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society.

自身の経験にもとづく問題提起を行ってきた著者が、閉塞状況の日本に一石を投じるエッセイ。　1997年から2000年に毎日新聞、産経新聞などに掲載したものをまとめて単行本化した書籍の改装版。

When our lives are imbalanced at any level of our self, i.e. physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, or relationally, we can experience stress, discomfort, unhappiness, and illness. In his audiobook Healing and Dealing: Essays on Becoming Wholed, Peter Cloud Panjoyah offers a road map toward an elusive balance point, outlining possibilities for healing inwardly and outwardly. This audiobook lays out the nuts and bolts of how to heal the emotional denial that has plagued humanity, impacted our health, and created dangerous dramas on the world stage.

Every single morning since early 2007, Princeton English professor Jeff Nunokawa has posted a brief essay in the Notes section of his Facebook page. Often just a few sentences but never more than a few paragraphs, these compelling literary and personal meditations have raised the Facebook post to an art form, gained thousands of loyal readers, and been featured in the New Yorker.

We all have it—that inner voice that shines as a beacon to our authentic self—but it’s often dimmed by life’s struggles. And that’s when we lose our way, because our path is dark. The Lighthouse Project is a collection of poignant stories by strong women who share their diverse yet unifying truths on trusting their intuition and reigniting their inner spark. From losing friends to losing jobs, from the end of relationships to coping with grief, these brave humans share their powerful and personal journeys of resilience and self-discovery. We hope you’ll be inspired to lean into ...

L'ouvrage présente 52 chroniques humoristiques pour arrêter de se trouver des excuses, pour garder sa motivation et pour mettre de côté ses complexes, même si on a les bras mous et les cuisses dépendantes affectives.

When Tim O’Brien became an older father, he resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him - a few scraps of paper signed ‘Love, Dad’. Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly ageing father, a man they might never really know. For the next 15 years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.