The start of Opus Dei - Recreating a historic moment using narrative nonfiction |
When Father Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer arrived in Italy on June 22, 1946, he was hungry. It was 11.30 p.m. and the last he had eaten was coffee and a few cookies thirty-two hours before when he lef...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 22:01:00 GMT |
I believe in making lists |
I believe in making lists. All kinds of lists. I make daily, weekly and monthly to-do lists. Grocery-shopping lists. Before-I-die lists. Gift-idea lists. Story-idea lists. Lists of questions to ask pe...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:08:00 GMT |
Living it: An immersion journalists story |
(I just spent a couple hours on a story for a class that won't be published. So I decided I would 'publish' it myself here on myspace. For all my writer friends, hopefully Adrian's message will inspir...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:55:00 GMT |
Why I write |
(Since i wrote this i've been told that writer's block doesn't exist, so i'd love to hear your thoughts on writer's block, your experiences and why you write.) The first time I experienced writer's bl...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:10:00 GMT |
Email is for old people, and apparently Im old people |
I met a particularly precocious 18-year-old today. She first started keeping an online journal as a freshman in high school because she was fed up with TV news and mass media's skewed representation o...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:07:00 GMT |
Halloween virgin |
I finally lost my Halloween virginity. I realize at age 26, I'm probably considered a late bloomer in the trick-or-treating world. But it wasn't my fault. I just never had the opportunity. Until this ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:27:00 GMT |
A two-way road to nowhere |
Media, in general, is a one-way communication road. The message goes out to the masses. Oh, I suppose there..s a chance to respond and enter into a discussion if you write a letter to the editor or ca...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:53:00 GMT |
Defining Myspace |
Today marks one week on MySpace for me, and 20 hours wasted online. But it didn..t feel like wasted time. It was fun figuring out how it worked and getting a glimpse into the world of HTML. Building a...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:41:00 GMT |
My life since MySpace: A social experiment |
Online communities like Myspace were not yet up and running when I was in college, so I missed the birth of this mania.As a result I imagine my undergraduate experience was different from that of toda...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:21:00 GMT |
