The Blog
This is where I write about things that no one is paying me for. Sometimes it’s about being a parent. It could involve insights about content marketing, or books I’ve read, or why I think playing pretend with other grownups is one of the best hobbies ever. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s sad. Most of the time it desperately needs an editor.
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Long-Distance Mourning
On broadcasting grief in the social media and COVID-19 Age Hey, can we talk for a second about something? It’s really weird to watch a person’s funeral on Facebook Live. Zoom funerals are one thing, wholly made necessary by the government’s continued insistence on fucking up literally every aspect of their pandemic response at seemingly…
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Joy? No Joy. Only Grief.
On January 6, Public Callouts, and the (Hopeful) End of the Trump Era I originally planned on writing a different essay this week, but the events that took place on Wednesday caused me to set that piece aside. To former friends who are still proudly in the camp of Trump supporters and old acquaintances I…
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#1 Dad of the Year
Thanks, Bean Dad, for making me feel like a damn champion when it comes to parenting today. So my original plan had been to write a new edition of just words, writing—complete with the usual recommended reading, music, and miscellaneous links—to go live on Thursday or Friday. Despite doing my best to write regularly, I…