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Put stuff on the Internet and watch what happens

You should write. Regardless of your self-perceived skill or experience, you should absolutely write stuff and stick it on the Internet. This is what I have been doing for more than a decade. Every single day since 2005 – without exception, I have posted a thought or an idea or an observation to the Internet…

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Why do I blog? Because it’s nearly led to national television, and it still might. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I’ve been blogging for over ten years now. Every single day for more than a decade, I have sat down and written something for a blog. Before this blog, there was another, and before that one, there was my first, born in a blogging class at Trinity College. I am often asked why I continue…

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Credit this blog for last night’s Moth StorySLAM victory

When I started blogging in 2004, people thought it was silly. They believed that it represented an unpolished, unprofessional form of writing that would go unread and unnoticed and eventually go away. They thought it a fad. A burst of digital narcissism. In 2007, blogging had begun to gain more mainstream acceptance, but the perception…

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107 Federal Street back in business

My sister and I write a blog together about our childhood called 107 Federal Street (our childhood home address). It’s my underhanded way of mining my sister for stories about our childhood that I can one day use for a memoir. We also hope to create something that our children will enjoy reading someday. Kelli’s…

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