Category: Immaculate Deception

• Satellite Office

  Temperatures spiked to a summerlike 87 degrees today, so I decided to take things outside. Not to say that my job is better than yours, but there are worse ways…

• Meme-ography

• And Speaking of Lego Stop-Motion …

  I wrote the other day about how the work of the late Ray Harryhausen inspired me to make my own little Super 8 stop motion films with Legos. I have…

• Thanks to Uncle Ray

  Those of us who are artists have lots of aunts and uncles to thank for what we do. I tend to claim anyone who’s had a measurable effect on my…

• Updating My Style

  I did something last week that had been unthinkable for the first 13 years of my working life – ordered my own copy of the Associated Press Stylebook. Unthinkable because…

• The Art of the Interview

  Back when I worked full-time in newspapers, I was occasionally called upon to do what were referred to as “brown baggers” – mini seminars that could take place over a…

• Waiting for Superman

  For all the good in my life every day, the last week has been challenging. “Too many difficult conversations,” I told my wife last night. “I think I’m done with difficult…

• God Bless Allyson Bird, For She Speaks the Truth

  A few weeks ago I wrote about why going into journalism is a great career choice for people who want to write for a living but aren’t sure how to…

• One Amazon/Goodreads Combo, Comin’ Up

  So, Amazon – great, lumbering consumer juggernaut that it is – gobbled up literary social networking site Goodreads in (an impeccably timed) Good Friday announcement. If you’re interested in catching…

• Scene from a Window

  Yes, this is what spring is looking like in southeastern Pennsylvania today. Not many distractions to lure me away from the desk, so much has been written. Not much novel…