Taking My Own Advice: The Surprising Lesson I Learned in a Creative Writing Class

One person’s trash is another’s “Oh, I like what you’ve done there”

Bob Merckel
Age of Empathy
Published in
3 min readMar 10

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The other day, someone I know was all stressed out and said, “Give me some advice, Bob.”

I thought for a bit and the best think I could come up with at time was …

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Bob Merckel
Age of Empathy

Editor: Age of Empathy, The Memoirist | English teacher/language consultant in Barcelona and Provincetown.