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By chance, I saw an interview with John Mellencamp recently, in which he recounted advice he'd been given years ago by folk legend Pete Seeger: Keep it small. But keep it going. Amen to that. Small is sustainable. It's humane. Small is being ...
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing; but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed ...
I've been working with the fantastic team at Hybrid Design in San Francisco to create content for Mohawk Paper's Maker publication for quite some time now. The writing I did for Issue No. 13 was especially interesting, because it challenged ...
Rob and I this summer spent 10 days in Italy. Ten glorious days. We started in Lucca, a charming town in Tuscany, then spent a full week in Bologna, the spiritual center of Italian food and the capital of its ...
In college, I took a 200-level English class on American literature and popular culture that focused on the intersection of music and literature. We studied Sam Shepard and Patti Smith’s rock-and-roll play “Cowboy Mouth.” I remember writing a term paper ...
Writers truly geek out when their work is published — even more so when their work is presented in glorious, beautifully designed fashion. I'm lucky. I get to work with creative people who turn my words into really cool printed ...
Recently, I was having a “you can do it” sort of conversation with a client who’s stuck in the long, thankless-until-it’s-published slog of writing a book, when she asked me about my writing process. The answer I gave her was ...
“I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing; but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed ...
I’m just back from three days at HOW Design Live — the premier event for folks in the creative professions (graphic and web design, advertising, marcomm and related fields). HOW remains close to my heart, since I spent many years ...