Writing - 5 articles

The Disguised Blessing of Being Unpopular - 26 September 2012 -

We’re hardwired to crave feedback. We’re always looking to improve, to refine, to gauge our words and actions against the response of other human beings.

Social Networking Is Killing My Ability To Write - 27 January 2010 -

When I wake my computer in the morning, my inbox is full of messages and notifications from social networking sites. I work through these quickly, hoping to begin the day with a clean slate. Then come the instant messages:...

In Good Company - 11 January 2010 -

For reasons that I can neither understand nor explain, it seems that a good number of people are interested in what I have to say—I just recently crossed the 900 follower mark on Twitter. Numbers don’t mean that much...

Project 52 - 5 January 2010 -

I’m blogging again. Actually, let me rephrase that: I’m writing again. Blogging is too specific a term. It sounds like something only tech savvy individuals do, people with computers dangling from every appendage, people who type faster than they...

Your Life, Six Words: A Contest - 17 May 2008 -

Inspired by Hemmingway’s powerful six-word short story (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and SmithMag’s Six Word Memoirs, I ran a contest to see who could give me the most original and clever six-word autobiography. The story was limited...