If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.