Journalist – Historian – Speaker
This week I wrote blogs on parenting, disability, Miss America, police violence, pole-sitting (and Byzantine saints), and the secrets of my writing process. I also published an essay on Pope Francis for CNN and re-wrote a blog entry for the Good Men Project. Thank you new readers, friends, twitter followers, and whoever else you are. …
Have opinion. See if anyone else has that opinion. Oh, someone does. Go back to work. Have a different opinion. Test it on facebook. Realize it’s an IMPORTANT opinion. Start drafting. Writing is hard. Go back to work. Realize that you also write for work Well, you could grade some papers. Or do committee work. …
It’s been a lively week, dashing from topic to topic as usual. I spend a lot (too much) time thinking about blogging and wondering if I’d have more readers if I just posted lots of stories on one topic. Probably. But I’d get bored and it wouldn’t reflect my real range of interests. So this …
My semester began this Monday with the usual hectic sprint. My wife left the house (for the week) at 4 AM, I woke up the kids at 6, and by 8 I was on my way to the university. I called it manly. On Tuesday, keeping with the higher ed theme and my interest in …