Tag Archives: life events

I Have Nothing To Fear From Maternal Attention

- September 6, 2012

My mom taught me to be a technical writer. It was my first job out of college. Her company needed to hire an hourly “contract” worker (temp, no benefits) to read 20,000 lines of Fortran code and describe them in English. My degree was in the sciences, and I had taken exactly one programming course […]

Bigger Than Just Me

- August 17, 2012

I’ve mentioned a time or two that I spent some time writing and drawing my own comic books. Nothing big time. They were photocopied minicomics that I distributed by hand and through mail order ads in The Comics Buyer’s Guide. This was still early days of the internet circa 1999 to 2001 and I didn’t […]

An Absolutely True Story

- August 15, 2012

There was a time, many years ago, when I struck out on my own and went backpacking in the rainforests of South America. The heat was sweltering, and the humidity stuck in my lungs, making every breath an effort of will. The group I was with consisted of a bunch of tree-hugger college kids, a […]

Writers are Clay, Life is the Mold

- August 14, 2012

I believe that every experience a writer has shapes his or her writing. Everything we do informs and influences who we are, and therefore what we write. Some of the things are minor. If I read a really good book, maybe my writing sounds like that style for awhile. If I find something incredibly unjust, […]

A Writing Partner

- August 14, 2012

Seven years ago, I married my best friend. I could tell you the story of how we met. I’ve told it a million times. I could tell you of our mutual love of all things Disney. I could tell you of our honeymoon at Disneyland, during the 50th anniversary of the park opening. But I’d […]