I've always told my students in prose writing classes (composition, fiction, or nonfiction) that if they really want to learn how to write, they should take ...

So far, since starting this blog, I've focused on getting started with writing: reading a lot is probably prerequisite numero uno; then comes finding time (p...

I don't know what a statistician might say about how much time we spend with our faces in our phones, but seems to me like it's a lot. It also seems like I h...

Originally published at The Nervous Breakdown and reposted at The Good Men Project Magazine If you’re like me you know that your father told you and your bro...