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Is The Dream Dead?
This blog began in 2004. Back then, my life was changing fast, and I was dreaming of a future...
This blog began in 2004. Back then, my life was changing fast, and I was dreaming of a future...
When we embark on ambitious projects we hope our friends will support us. It doesn't always turn out that...
Do we ever outgrow our origins? It’s a question I ponder in a recent essay published at Across The...
Critics used to play an important role in popular culture. But many people think we’re better off without them....
Something is wrong with the way we communicate. We’ve lost control. And we’re drowning in misinformation as a result.
The latest edition of Writerly contains an essay I wrote. Publishing in journals like this is part of a...
Masculinity has been scrutinized a lot lately. Rightly so. In particular men struggle to do friendship well. There's a...
For the past six months, I’ve been on the Granta Writing Memoir Workshop. It’s been one of the most...
An Instagram ad got me thinking about what it means to grow old with style.
I've tried to avoid thinking about writing during this holiday. But today I failed and the day on the...
Each year I choose a word as my theme for the coming year. In 2024 that word is frequency....
Is any year normal anymore? 2023 was an odd year that seemed to pass in a flash. My theme...
State of the Apps is a yearly review of the technology I use regularly in my life and work.
In the aviation sector, five dangerous attitudes have been shown to contribute to tragic accidents. What are these attitudes...
October marked this blog’s nineteenth anniversary. It’s time to plan for big changes.
Christmas often feels like the busiest and most stressful time of the year. What if there was another way...