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Four Diary Entries

by November 17, 2008 » Add more comments.

Barb Chamberlain is the Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Washington State University in Spokane. She was also the youngest Representative and (later) Senator elected to the Idaho State Legislature–which I didn’t know until she tagged me in a post she wrote on her blog: Five things you Read more »

The Shadow Knows: Watching Superbad with My Son

by April 3, 2008 » Add more comments.

When I was a kid, in the 70s, I used to swipe my older brother’s Mad magazines. A lot of the humor was over my head, but that only added to the allure: This was a peep show into an unknown world, and I was lusting to grow up. Read more »

How I Invented Blogging

by February 13, 2008 » Add more comments.

The fabulous Toby Bloomberg solicited this from me more than a year ago for a site she was publishing, Blogger Stories. I asked her to let me reprint a modified version here to answer a question I’ve been getting a lot lately, “So how’d you get into blogging, Read more »

4 x 4 Secrets About Me, And Why I’m Uncomfortable Talking About Myself

by February 4, 2008 » Add more comments.

Over the weekend, my friends Peter Kim and BL Ochman independently tagged me “It” in two blog games (called memes). The object of each is for the tagged writer to reveal personal bits about themselves that you wouldn’t know otherwise, and then to tag other blog authors to similarly Read more »