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I fell in love with magazines as a young adult. In college, I contributed to the campus literary magazine, the school newspaper, and an upstart leftist zine. Those experiences, plus the time I’d spent writing for my high school’s student newspaper, convinced me that journalism would be a good career bet.… Story continues … “The magic of magazines”
Originally published June 13, 2024 on CoAuthored by Foster
For me, the word “writer” has long called to mind the archetype of a poet in a lonely garret, scribbling away on page after page (or banging away on a keyboard) as the city goes about its business, far away and outside. … Story continues … “Writing together in series and parallel”
The Good Men Project first published this article on May 2, 2024.
For many of us, life hasn’t turned out quite the way we expected. Granted, this is true for many people of every gender and race, but for white men, it has a particular flavor of surprise.… Story continues … “The spiritual crisis of white men”
My blog post for Highwire PR explains how thinking like a journalist can help you craft better thought-leadership content.
Note: This article first appeared in Popula on March 28, 2019.
Approaching 50, I went a little bonkers. I grew a beard, started waking up early in the morning to meditate, got into long email and phone conversations with a couple of spiritually-inclined friends, and started going to weekly meetings with a group of Buddhists.… Story continues … “A delicious mid-life mocktail”
In my day job as the communications guy for ValiMail, I spend a lot of time explaining how easy it is to create fraudulent emails using an email address that doesn’t belong to you.
A faked “from” address, in fact, how the majority of email attacks happen.… Story continues … “How to Fake an Email From Almost Anyone in Under 5 Minutes”
No matter how you slice it, the media is in trouble.
Fake news. Guest “experts” who don’t tell the truth. Clickbait headlines. A President who calls the media the “enemy of the American people.” No wonder public trust in the media is at an all-time low.… Story continues … “Talk loudly and carry a big schtick”
Design reigned supreme in the 20th century, when it was an integral part of the way artists, publishers, governments and political parties communicated to the first mass audiences.
Message and presentation were inextricably intertwined, with the latter lending power, impact and even meaning to the former.… Story continues … “The Undesigned Web”
Grayson is a book by long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox about her encounter with a baby whale and her adventure guiding it back to sea. I came to read it because I’ve been taking my nine-year-old daughter on occasional early-morning swims.
She’s one of those kids who loves the ocean, and really water of any kind.… Story continues … “Grayson”
Thanks to the internet, haiku is making a return to the kind of collaborative, interactive spirit out of which it originally emerged almost four centuries ago.
As the editor of tinywords, I’ve seen this kind of evolution emerge spontaneously on many occasions.… Story continues … “.haiku column No. 1 – Haiku Society of America”