i get paid for my obsession. here's what it's cost me.

do you want it badly enough to become who it requires?

i was staying at this bed and breakfast in Yorkshire recently, and one morning i got into a really lovely conversation with the host.

he told me he wanted to write a book. he had ideas for this memoir he was going to write, and obviously, because i’m me, i held onto that.

when i was leaving the B&B, i wrote him a thank-you note- that was part thank you, a…