Advice to a College Music Student

I started teaching at the University of North Carolina Wilmington right after finishing my Master’s…

100 reasons to be happy and love your life RIGHT now — no matter what. 

One evening, a Cherokee elder told…

Why I Left Google

Thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity

What’s Weird About Norway

A touchy-feely guy’s view of a touchless, feel-less nation

Unrequited Love

A First Person Study

Passionate love is maddening. It’s a paradox shifting from exhilarating joy when it’s reciprocated to destructive anxiety when it’s not. For the sake of this study, I will be defining love in a non-philosophical sense as simply the…

Why you should take up skateboarding

What I’ve learnt from a painful and pointless hobby

16 Dos and Don’ts for Aspiring Writers

Writing advice is everywhere you look these days, from blogs to YouTube to 140 characters on Twitter. And a lot of it deals with story structure and plot elements and how to create memorable characters. But that’s not what this post is about.

Introversion Is Not a Personality Fail

A few years ago, I got into an argument with my now mother-in-law over my supposedly…

Life lessons I learned as a freshman in college.

How failure, dehydration, and fear of dropping out made me a better person.

“Hey, I came to talk to you because I’m worried about my grade in this class. I really don’t…

Douglas Coupland is a Jerk 

My personal story about doing business with my personal idol, and why it…