WHEN THE WRITING ISN'T GOING WELL
When the writing isn’t going well, the mind can descend into the loneliest of places. You think about the people in your past who implied you were worthless or even called you a monster. You start to wonder if maybe they were onto something. When the writing isn’t going well, the glow of a nice day turns pale and scrubs the meaning out of things. Everything seems clinical and on the edge of death, like a scene from some old infirmary in some B movie that was showing on a Satu
SOCIALLY AWKWARD IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
When I discovered Facebook for myself about seven years ago, I also discovered that I could inadvertently offend old friends and acquaintances through this novel medium. Hello, strange new world! Once I realized that all of the old faces from high school were now only a click away, I started clicking and then clicked some more. I became fast “friends” with both people who had loved me and with those who had scorned me in years gone by. I became friends with people I used to s
I GUESS I CARE A LITTLE BIT
When I was a young lad navigating the heady days of college, I cared about getting good grades. I didn’t just care a little bit, I cared A LOT. Looking back, it isn’t a stretch to categorize my collegiate interest in grade point averages as dysfunctional, but I was raised in a private-school atmosphere where semester GPAs were posted in the hall for all to gawk at, so in some respects I was just a product of a neurotic environment. “Are you like this in all your classes?” my
