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The Washington Post Style section ran an article yesterday about author Kelly Corrigan who, despite having two books in print, had to cobbl...

After I published my Popularity post (in which I lamented that stupid videos on YouTube can claim a million viewers in a matter of days whi...

At a PTA meeting I went to a couple of nights ago, some parents argued that, for ecological reasons, the PTA newsletter should no longer be ...

Dustin Beall Smith has been many things—a skydiver (in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Smith helped pioneer sport parachuting in the United ...

[This is the second in what may be an ongoing series on Facebook for writers ]. "It's complicated." When someone's relatio...

Do you ever sneak onto Facebook, guilty that the tiny amount of time you linger there might have been better spent composing haikus or writi...

The day after I wrote my last post in the DMV, I "threw" the I Ching while sitting in the car on the way to North Carolina, to ask...

In my last post, I described feeling crazy unless I write on a regular basis. And then I realized, after I uploaded it to the cyberworld, th...

It's the eternal question: do I pay bills, or write a blog post? Leave the dishes in the sink, or write a journal entry? Do laundry, or ...

“Had-i-lay, did-i-lay, had-i-lay, pood-i-lay.” These words don’t seem significant, yet nearly five million people have tuned in on youtube t...