For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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A Flyer on the Door — and What It Revealed
Yesterday I went to Sand Mountain Family Practice Center for my annual labs. It was an ordinary appointment, the kind that comes with age and routine. I checked…
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Daily Deep Dive–Why Clarity Often Feels Like Standing Alone
There is a quiet assumption built into most social life: If many people agree on something, it must be right. If something is widely accepted, it must be…
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Daily Deep Dive–Why Wholeness Matters More Than Balance in Creative Work
We often talk about creative work in the language of balance. Balance your reason and your feeling. Balance structure and spontaneity. Balance discipline and inspiration. There is truth…
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Daily Deep Dive – Why Trust Works Better Than Hope in the Life of Making
Hope and trust are close enough in ordinary speech that we often use them as if they were interchangeable. But they do different work in a life. Hope…
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Daily Deep Dive — How Care Creates Inner Spaciousness
Today’s Daily Deep Dive grows out of Donald Winnicott’s reflections on mental health, relationship, and what he called “care-cure,” and it follows one question that stayed with me…
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Daily Deep Dive — How Vastness Restores Proportion
Sunday, April 5, 2026 A few months ago, I told readers here that I was moving my primary writing to another space. Since then, that path has changed,…
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A Change in Where I’m Writing
For a long time, my writing has lived in several places. Some of it was about belief.Some of it about purpose.Some of it about craft, or questioning, or…
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Unscripted — Week 7–Seven Dogs, Zero Agendas: Lessons in Unfiltered Living
Welcome to Unscripted, a weekly reflection on what it means to live without inherited stories, rigid identities, or predetermined purpose. Each Monday, I explore a different part of…
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Unscripted — Week 6 – Walking the Runway: A Daily Practice of Awareness
Welcome to Unscripted, a weekly reflection on what it means to live without inherited stories, rigid identities, or predetermined purpose. Each Monday, I explore a different part of…
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Unscripted — Week 5: Life at Oak Hollow: Why We Built a Place for Presence
Welcome to Unscripted — a weekly reflection on living without inherited stories, rigid identities, or predetermined purpose. Each Monday, I explore a different facet of this shift toward…
Richard L. Fricks 