Live-blogged my first conference for my job this week—the Southwest Washington Sustainability Conference. I didn’t draw the straw to cover RFK Jr.’s speech, but nonetheless felt super cool with my press pass and everything. Sat in the back and typed as the speakers were doing their ‘thang. The result was not exactly a “live blog” […]
Entries Tagged as 'Writing'
Behold: this is how I drive traffic to other blog posts I’ve written elsewhere on the Internet
July 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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Where are you?
November 15th, 2006 · 14 Comments
One of my favorite teachers once gave my class the task of answering that question.
Where are you? It was, maybe, a two-page assignment that I distinctly remember writing by hand. I don’t have the essay anymore but I recall saying something silly like “I am where I imagine myself to be” and went on about […]
One year later
September 25th, 2006 · 18 Comments
It’s official, folks. When Asa’s alarm went off at five-fucking-thirty this morning, it finally hit me: I’ve lived in Portland for an entire year.
I moved here in late September last year, just before Asa began his diesel mechanics classes that start every morning at the very unreasonable hour of seven o’clock. His alarm clock—a mechanized […]
Is there a point to this post?
March 30th, 2006 · 22 Comments
My picture’s in the paper, alongside this article in which I accidentally use the word “sprung” in two consecutive sentences. It is an absolute mystery to me how I can read and re-read the same freaking story 13,475 times while it’s still on my computer and not notice such a glitch, and then the second […]
I need more time
February 2nd, 2006 · 5 Comments
Okay. I’m stressed out. I don’t have time to write why. So we’ll just leave it at that.
In other news, you can read this chart I wrote for the newspaper if you’re bored, which, I must say, looks a hell of a lot better in print than it does on the web. Or this, and […]
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