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How A Cup Of Coffee Made My Day

Share The great John O’Connell once said, “You know you’re getting old when you wake up feeling like you would after a big night but there was no big night.” I guess I’m getting old. Or it’s tech week. It’s been a really tough week for me: during the day I’m working to meet deadlines [...]

Why You Should Travel With Strangers

Share Now I understand the psychology of reality shows. I spent this Independence Day weekend traveling back to The OBX to celebrate the wedding of my ex-roommate Sarah. With a destination wedding on a holiday I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to make it but Sarah’s fiance Mike looped me in [...]

Becoming A Blogger Free Agent

Share While I was on The OBX I received a very interesting e-mail from Tom at We Love DC: My condolences on the loss of Metblogs… Wait a minute. What happened to DC Metblogs? I was busy getting my tan on to notice that something was going on to the place where I write about [...]

The Empowerment Of Learning To Fix Your Own Car

Share Photo courtesy of Flickr user SoulRider.222 For the past few months I had quite the learning experience trying to fix yet another problem on my piece of shit car. Stemming back to last year there was a noise coming from my front tires. First it was a knocking that grew into a knocking, grinding, [...]

The Quarter Life Crisis Series: The Fast Starters

Share What happens to life after college? For so many of us it’s a time where we don’t know exactly where we are going or heading. Friends get engaged, married, and pregnant while we wonder if life is passing us by faster than we thought. We worry about finding jobs and wonder where to go [...]

How Nat Geo Pitched Me With A Hat (Tips To Successfully Pitch A Blogger)

Share I’m not a hat person. Sure I have a Red Sox hat, I’m a Bostonian for life. Sure I also have a Nationals hat, I need something to cover my face when I’m watching the Nats lose 100 games. Generally though I don’t like wearing a hat for extended periods, if you ever go [...]

My New Suit, My New Job, And What I Learned

Share I looked like a million bucks. I felt like a million bucks. I was in a Macy’s dressing room trying on a new Tommy Hilfiger suit and I loved it. I loved it more than any other suit I owned. The fit was perfect, the lines were great, and it made me feel powerful. [...]

Oscar Watch: Up In The Air Is About Loyalty Redefined…And Lonliness

Share Note: This post is additional commentary to the weekly post I have up today at GoGameFace. I try my best not to spoil the film too much but you might want to watch the film first before going any further- and I hope you do because it is a great film. Shopgirl, The Weather [...]

2009 In Review

Share 2009 will be the year of the recession. My personal recession. Sure the economic recession started in late 2007 but it didn’t really hit me til the beginning of 2009; when my office laid off two employees and all of a sudden the mood around work started to change. I felt somewhat secure with [...]

Three Things That Always Breaks Through In Social Media

Share How To Make Your Article Hit The Front Page Of Digg and Go Super Viral in 24 Hours That was the title of a November 7th post on the blog Shorter and Sweeter. The post was more of a jab against posts that did make the front page of Digg, and provided more snark [...]