Another batch of succulents 21 May 2013 | 01:45 am

I liked my first Booker’s bourbon box cacti planter (see previous post) so much that I made a second one, this time with even more succulents!

Cacti in a Booker’s bourbon box 2 May 2013 | 11:00 pm

Lauren’s bourbon balls recipe 1 May 2013 | 08:01 am

GUYS GUYS GUYS. The Kentucky Derby is on Saturday! This combines the two things I learned to love in Kentucky: horse racing and bourbon. Lauren always makes bourbon balls for our party. What are bourb...

En Garde! 24 Mar 2013 | 08:40 am

En garde, mademoiselle kitty! (Yes that is a pica pole) You cannot escape me, you villain! I accept your surrender. Now, where is the kibble?

On turning 30, and chasing dreams 21 Mar 2013 | 11:18 pm

So I turned 30 today. I feel like I have mostly figured out being an adult, or as my mom put it on Twitter, “30 is when I stopped worrying what other people thought of me — very liberating.” I also fe...

The comic I wrote for Fireside is in a new anthology to raise money for Hurricane Sandy victiom 21 Mar 2013 | 10:28 pm

http://firesidemag.com/2013/03/21/my-comic-an-honest-mistake-is-in-an-anthology-to-raise-money-for-sandy-victims/

I bet every journalist 30 or younger who reads this blog post spends the whole time nodding their heads 21 Mar 2013 | 12:48 am

I don’t think the Internet killed newspapers. Newspapers killed newspapers.  People like to say that print media didn’t adapt to online demand, but that’s only part of it. The corporate folks who mana...

Here’s the St. Patrick’s Day essay I had in the Philly Inquirer two years ago 18 Mar 2013 | 01:05 am

http://talkwordy.com/2011/03/17/my-st-patricks-day-op-ed-in-the-philly-inquirer/

I’m only bleeding, man 22 Feb 2013 | 03:31 am

Today was rough. I have tendinitis in both my wrists, the product of working eight hours a day at a computer with no other duties but to edit the copy. Spent a year with doctors and physcial therapy b...

WE DID IT!!!!!!!! (Man do I love typing those words) 12 Jun 2012 | 10:30 pm

While I slept, the Kickstarter hit its goal to publish Issue Two of Fireside, my fiction and comics magazine! We now stand at $6,037 with 250 backers. Thank you so much to each of you who pledged and ...