Words with nowhere else to go.
I know you’re going to disagree with me, and I’ll admit it it sounds crazy but hear me out. Music is perhaps the only art form that, if you don’t like it, people are going to hold it against you. It’s perfectly fine not to spend time and money gawking at paintings or [ ]
Please visit Medium to read my story on Veronica, the little girl who made the U.S. Supreme Court care and why you should, too: https://medium.com/love-stories/175a5105b278
A photographer took this picture while we covered a competitive eating event in West Palm Beach in 2008. The medium was corn on the cob, and one of the top competitors had a red beard that netted kernel after yellow kernel. Hence, the expression on my face. This picture also serves as a great summary [ ]
I get asked two questions several times a week, and I brush off both with a verbal swat. One because I’m in my late 20s, I suppose – is when are you getting married? And the other, because it seems like small talk, is why did you leave the newspaper? I could answer both [ ]
Valentine’s Day reminded me of someone I hadn’t thought about in years, someone entirely peripheral and unromantic, but significant in a strange way. I was 10 years old, and he was a middle-aged wanderer. Dave was also a published author and the first writer I ever knew, or rather the first person I knew who [ ]
Chances are, the only people who read a first blog post are Mom (proudly), Significant Other (dutifully) and Strangers in Countries You Can’t Spell (because that’s just the way of the internet). That said, there’s still such pressure for a first post to deliver. Writing for a new publication, whether it’s a newspaper that circulates [ ]