I’m thinking of the dismemberment of robust local news outlets across huge swaths of the country in the past five to ten years. If they haven’t been gutted, they’ve closed. That goes for big outlets, like the Wall Street Journal, and especially for medium-sized and small outlets with a strong tradition of fact-based reporting, like the Kalamazoo […]
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Physical
It has been six weeks since I quit everything and moved to a different town, and four weeks since the new Knight-Wallace adventures in Ann Arbor have been in full swing. It’s such a tempo shift. Without deadlines sharpening every minute of every day for the first time in years, things feel – more tentative. […]
Goodbye Home, Hello What Comes Next
After nearly five years in my New Center apartment — the longest I’ve ever lived in one place as an adult — I’ve come upon my last evening here. Tomorrow, I move to Ann Arbor for a one-year journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan. It is an unbelievable opportunity, and I’m thrilled about it. But as […]
Workshop: Be a More Awesome Freelance Writer
UPDATE: As of July 24, this workshop is sold out. If any additional spots open up, I will give notice. This is a workshop for people who want to tell better stories in print and online publications. Whether you are just breaking into freelance writing, or trying to up your game by contributing to more prominent media outlets, […]
Storytelling
I am a writer. I am a reader. But there are times when words fail me. This is one of those times. I have some big news. I want to tell you about it. Just this once, though, let me tell you this story with mostly pictures. This is my old copy of James and the […]
Infinity
I lived in an intentional community in Boston for a few years. Rooted in the principles of the Catholic Worker movement—social justice, simplicity, self-governance, spirituality, creative nonviolence, and radical hospitality—Haley House has stood in a brick row house at the corner of Dartmouth and Montgomery streets for fifty years. As part of the community, I ran the Wednesday […]
Exhale
I grew up by the water. Just a few blocks away from one of the great inland seas. It won’t surprise you that I spent a lot of time in that lake. The tiny push-pull of the current on my skin felt as natural as air. Shells and stones burrowed in the cool sand pocked the softness of […]
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