Once upon a time, I joined Livejournal. I was a latecomer to the platform, and I already had a blog elsewhere in 2006, but I had a few new (younger) acquaintances on the platform, and I was interested in reading what they wrote about. Then I started writing there, too, and it became a great…
Category: writing
Becoming Mr. Spock
Matter of fact. That’s how my writing coach described a few sections of my memoir. I’m writing my way through my high school years, and I’m realizing that I really don’t feel any kind of way about it. Teenage girls have big feelings, she told me, as if I should know that. I was a…
(Not Quite) One Thousand Words
I keep hearing that text is on its way out. People don’t read. Your blog post should be fewer than 800 words. People want visuals. While all of this may be valid, I for one am standing by text. Written language is a wholly unique form of communication, and what it does cannot be replicated…
Remember 2007?
Yeah, neither do I. But that seems to be the year that everyone and your grandma started a blog. Like the “desktop publishing” revolution of the 90’s, suddenly everyone could do it… and they did. In most cases, it was not a very good idea. Those LiveJournalers who had been at it since 1996 rolled…
the inevitable
It was only a matter of time before “the economy” caught up with me. As of Monday, I joined the ranks of the unemployed. And if I’m honest I’m quite glad about it (in betweeen waves of terror). Now is the time for me to push forward plans that have been floating around for some…
“Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say” – Cheshire Cat
I read a lot of RFPs and Project Briefs and Proposals. These are documents that are meant to define slippery items like “scope” and “deliverables”, but it is alarming to see how often these documents are vaguely and poorly written. Part of this has to do with the fact that they are often written by…
pointless creative work is not pointless
My mom bought me a cassette by Harry Nilsson when I was about six. Besides being an excellent example of 70’s folk-rock, it is also a narrative about Oblio, a boy born with a round head in the land of Point. Oblio is eventually banished to the Pointless Forest where he soon realizes that everything…
speaking the truth, sharing wisdom
There are a lot of blogs out there that want to help you toward productivity, simplicity, abundance, good habits, etc etc. And they are, for the most part, well written and insightful. Or at least kinda insightful. There seems to be a lot of recycling of the same old principles… take a little buddhism, add…
jargonian nonsensicalness
I work in a field that is loosely connected to Marketing. Interactive media is almost always developed as some kind of marketing tool. I can’t really bitch about this (though occasionally I would like to), since people do need to communicate their message somehow, right? So I find myself often in the presence of Marketing…
finding my voice
I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now, and it is always a little alarming to start up a new blog – especially in a non-social space like WordPress – because by all appearances no one reads it. I get a few views every day, so I’m not feeling totally alone here, but there’s…
Plumb Wonderful 