👏🏼You know you’re a writer when a nice, handwritten rejection 👏🏼from a publication like The Missouri Review is reason for celebration. 👏🏼They get over 12,000 submissions a year, 👏🏼so it feels good to be told “try us again in the future.” 👏🏼 I think I’m going to polish my story “The Art of Mending Broken
I’m going through old files in the garage. I found a bunch of old assignments, worksheets, lessons from when I taught at Preston High School. 🗂They are all neatly filed in color-coded hanging files. Most of them I sent to be shredded. 🗂I have many of them in electronic format on USBs or more recently,