Mar 14, 2018The Business of Freelance WritingHow to make and manage money while writing the Great American Copy. During my first job interview, back in 2005, I was asked my thoughts on business. I said “Pffft LOL I don’t know anything about business!” (Guess who didn’t get the job.) A decade later I’ve somehow stumbled into…Freelancing5 min read
Mar 24, 2015Love and BasketballMarch is all about hoops and heartbreak. A Villanova fan weighs in Dylan Ennis of Villanova. (Photo: Fox Sports) I’m nursing a broken heart. But it wasn’t a man who broke it; it was thirteen men, all basketball players at Villanova University. I thought the 2014–15 NCAA basketball season would…6 min read
Feb 18, 2015Womankindand My Terrible Telephone by Mary van Ogtrop Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield. The past few days, I’ve read story after story about woman-on-woman pseudo-violence. There’s Jennifer Weiner’s recent New York Times piece about how the model on the cover of the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, with her swimsuit bottom pulled way down…5 min read
Jan 27, 2015Memories of “Martha”I first discovered Tom Waits, like a lot of artists I’ve come to love, through the music of Bruce Springsteen. I was obsessed with Bruce in high school — okay, I still am, but back then I needed to hear every artist even tangentially related to him, like I was…4 min read
