“It’s not really writing until you feel something; until you choke up at a thought, until you start fidgeting in your seat in excitement, until you feel the twinge of pain that happens when a thorn is pulled out of your side. Go back. Delete everything before you started fidgeting or crying or deflating like a balloon. Then, write some more.” — Frank Chimero
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This is 168 stories, one per year from 1776 to 1943. Every person in them was real. Most of them you’ve never heard of: fishermen and farmers, shoemakers and mill workers, people who crossed oceans and some who never left their town. They are the people who made [my] four grandparents.
Apple sent their WWDC 2026 invitations built around the Swift logo. Swift is the programming language developers use to build native Mac apps. I’m definitely reading too much into it. I’m going to do it anyway.