Issue No. 9 of the Knowing Road. These past few weeks my inner critic has been having a field day. “Why are you not writing, do you have nothing valuable to say?” “You lost your ____________ [fill in the blank] again, why are you always losing things?” “Why aren’t you more like ____________ [fill in the blank]?” “Are you sure you are doing the right thing?” “What are people going to think of you?” Do any of these sound familiar to you?