The Great Writing Adventure Begins
The next chapter starts tomorrow: a move to Pittsburgh, a new job, and two years to reignite my writing career.
Ten Years, or My New Job
Larry Lessig once said he liked to work on a problem for ten years before moving on. I’ve been teaching for eleven. And so it’s time to move on. Here’s what is next.
By Acclamation
We must find a way to create spaces for women where they are free to push and explore the boundaries of what they can do. A note on what I’ve heard this weekend.
An Open Letter to Berkeley J-school Dean Edward Wasserman Regarding the Proposed $10,250 Fee
If the tuition hike is approved, I can no longer in good conscious support the J-school. I have to ask myself: If a school takes no interest in attracting the people who come from where I have, why would I continue to give my support? More importantly, how could I justify such support as I travel and work in Appalachia?
The Time is Now
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Review: Mitt, a Netflix Documentary
If you have Netflix and 90 minutes, I’d highly recommend you settle in for Mitt, a Netflix original documentary that follows Mitt Romney and his family through 6 years of presidential campaigning. This isn’t a political documentary so don’t expect lots of policy wonks or behind-the-scene…
January: The Year of Focus Update
We know that the best way for humans to change their behavior patterns is through tracking mechanisms. If you want to lose weight, you have to count (somewhere) what you are eating. If you want to get stronger in the gym, you have to count…
The Year of Focus
I think thematically. As each year comes to a close, I spend December sitting with the work of my previous year. I sift through what I’ve created, I look at what I didn’t create, and conceptualize what I want my next year to become. I’ve always been…
“What’s Next?”
Lately I’ve been asking myself a simple question: “What’s next?” I go through these moments of self reflection as I near the end of a large project. In this case, I’m in the final stages of rewriting Dungeons & Dreamers after several years of on-again/off-again work…
“I have discovered a corner of the universe where I am at peace.”
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly four years since we last spoke. On our good days, The Muse was not only part of my life, but also the center of the streams of my thought about who I was. She was the constant…