There’s not much in my tank tonight, which means precious few words are dancing in my head. Then again, I never put a word length on the 90 in 90 challenge. Still, it feels wrong to simply post a few random thoughts. Disingenuous because the goal of the project isn’t simply publishing every day. It’s [...]
By all accounts, this weekend was a social disaster.
The kind of weekend that would make me want to scamper back to school, back amongst the living, back to see and touch humanity to make sure that I hadn’t committed any felonious act that was about to end my career.
It’s funny to type that [...]
I’m sitting in my Muncie apartment, staring out the window into the snowy neighborhood wondering why I’m so happy.
There’s no really good reason for me to be this upbeat. Or a better way to put it: nothing particularly positive has happened in the last few days that would lead one to suspect that I would [...]
This is the best description of my weekend. Despite the canceled trip to Cleveland (to be made up ASAP), my heart is light. For reasons that are unknown.
That’s okay, though. I’m going with it. Here’s what it sounds like inside my insides:
I’m staring at the screen, as I do in the evenings, trying to figure out what to write. I’ve reached the limit where I’m starting to feel redundant, the repetition of my nightly ritual drowning out the thoughts I have throughout the day.
The danger of writing all the time is that you begin to think [...]
On Monday, I gave someone a piece of advice that I rarely follow myself: “It’s all just a big cosmic joke so remember, every once in awhile, put down your work and just have a good time. After all, we’re just grown-up versions of little apes. Sometimes we have to throw some poo.”
Not, mind you, [...]
I’m three weeks into my actual attempt to quit smoking (as opposed to my Year of Health, first month waffling).
It’s a good feeling, most of the time. I’ve always had a motor that goes 100 miles per hour, but alcohol and cigarettes kept it running at a much more manage-able rate. (For all practical [...]
I’ve spent the better part of Saturday domesticating: cleaned the house, cooked two desserts for this evening’s dinner, finished my laundry and re-arranged the artwork and living spaces.
With the exception of the master bathroom, which I’m actually saving until tomorrow morning, there isn’t a spot of dust or dirty anywhere in my place. It [...]
I was talking with an old graduate school friend last night. We’re recently back in touch after a long, prolonged absence filled with lots of life happening to each of us. I will see her in just a few weeks when I head out to Arizona to work on So Far Appalachia.
Truthfully, we weren’t very [...]
Nearly three weeks after the Vanity Fair thrashing Cincinnati and Appalachia hit the Web, my hometown media finally caught the Fever. The last 24 hours has been an interesting mix of blogo-rage, media coverage and Twitter conversation.
As a journalist, a professor and an author, I’m intrigued by how stories develop. This one in particular.
My casual [...]
