Tag: journaling
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Keeping Up Appearances
Having moved around a lot, I have a lot of friends online. And really, I was a quick adopter of the internet back in the ’90s and have a tendency to express myself online much the same as I do in real life. Especially when it comes to blowing off steam. Since I work with…
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Plontsing the Sac
I’ve been on holiday! It is becoming a tradition that each Christmas my wife and I go up into the White Mountains for a few days. Though New Hampshire is a small state, the North country and the South Country are pretty different (as we’re often reminded by those that live in the North). You…
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The Easiest Way to Give
So you lost your job and you haven’t had an interview in months but you still splurged on presents for the kids because you can’t stand to think of them crying in front of the tree. You think to yourself, I don’t have any money to give to a charity. Well, Nathan Bransford is holding…
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Silver Lining
I usually don’t speak on my relationship with my mother except in the context of my upbringing and its impact on greater topics like racism or religion. This is for a few reasons: it implies I dwell on the matter, which I don’t. When hearing we haven’t seen each other in 7 years, someone inevitably…
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The Roast Beef Sandwich…FROM HELL!
I held onto this comment because I wanted to maintain the positivity of Thanksgiving, my second-favorite holiday of the year. Five days later, it’s still such a wild ride that I’d feel horrible not sharing it with you. It is Wednesday evening, the night before Thanksgiving, and my wife has been preparing various foodstuffs for…
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Hellllooooooooo Nurse!
What’s that? Julia Stiles is in an ad for Stoli vodka, and she’s plastered all around Boston North Station? What’s that? My train is boarding? Ummmm, I think I’ll take the next one. I could sit here awhile longer.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
It’s a fair bet most of your writer friends aren’t your real-world friends. They’re online. The internet has been a terrific tool for us to gather and discuss and be. You may have been trapped previously with those that said they wanted to write, but whose offerings amounted to nothing more than literary masturbation, taking…
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Finding New Meaning in Old Emotions
A scenario. Your character has: Given up professional and post-graduate dreams to aid a friend Moved to a new city to aid said friend Then been let down by said friend Which resulted in the loss of your character’s entire circle of friends, who had really been said friend’s friends Only speaks to his ex-fiancee…
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Dream a Little Dream of Me
In my last semester of college, I participated in one of the most influential classes of my university career: Senior Theatre Capstone. It was a discussion course required to graduate with a theatre degree (every arts degree had one: I took something similar for my English degree). It was lead by the department head and…