Cub?

 

April 5, 2012

 

She emails me stories asking advice, and it’s difficult to tell her she doesn’t need it.

I gave her a book some time last year on how to do weekly journalism when she said she was a little over her head.

It seemed foolish then since her work is as good as mine is.

So what do you say to a person like that?

I send back suggestions and then notice that she has signed her email as “cub,” something I didn’t get at first.

I don’t pretend to understand it.

I’m not the mentoring type, and her writing is so good it makes me want to compete – always a good thing.

It reminds me of college and the competition I felt there, and that time I was humiliated by Craig in a graduate level playwriting contest I got invited back to.

I was writing a sit com, Craig wrote a masterpiece – I had to sit through with head hung low.

It took me a year to write something it’s equal.

I feel a little like that now, watching someone that challenges me.

Cub indeed!