Been thinking about old people lately. Not retirement parties and going on cruises old, but the confused, vulnerable years that follow. I’ve run an IRL writers group for about 7 or 8 years. We’re listed through meetup.com . The Nashville Writers Meetup used to be enormous. Only two groups survived the pandemic shutdown, and the other is online. If you are looking for a Nashville public fiction critique group, we’re it. I love the diversity of writers this has drawn, especiall

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This is really simple. Wealth is created when something changes form to be worth more than the sum of its parts. In our oversimplified...