A Fearful Leader
Gillian Barnes Gillian Barnes

A Fearful Leader

While at my writers’ group today, one of the members referred to me as their “fearless leader”. I immediately laughed. The very idea that I’m fearless in the face of anything is just inaccurate.

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She’s Too Emotional
Free Writing Gillian Barnes Free Writing Gillian Barnes

She’s Too Emotional

Have you all finished watching the Youtube (now on Netflix) Cobra Kai series? Personally, I main-lined it in two days. It’s excellent, but that’s not the point here.

Post-watch (cough, cough: binge), I was left thinking about how emotional the four male leads were. Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso, as well as Miguel Diaz and Robby Keane. Sure, there were two main females with talented supporting females as well, but the main story is about these four. Four wildly emotional, unpredictable men.

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