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I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

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For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

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That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a little while - several years, in my case - and then you come out again, hopefully.

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I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

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There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

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I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

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Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

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For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.

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What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

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To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: January 26th, 1960

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