I don’t come from a rich family, and I’m the youngest of four children, so it would have been very difficult for my parents to have paid for me to attend university. Also, as I’ve always been kind of nervous about borrowing money, chances are I wouldn’t have taken out…

Subscriptions used to be simple: pay a fee, usually annually, and receive a newspaper or magazine each time a new one is published. You received a new edition daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly. You paid for the pleasure of reading, for the research, for the skill of the writers, photographers…

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked. ~ Dr. Seuss I used to love to make music, draw and, occasionally, paint. I sometimes shared these things with others and received positive feedback (sometimes). The main reason I loved these things, especially music, was…

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning…

“Schools and universities have curricula and they have standards. Curricula mean: You have a particular set of ideas that everybody should put into their minds. Standards mean that people are standardized. In a more rational society, schools would advertise that every child who leaves them is different. But today they…

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.” ~ Haruki Murakami I’ve been thinking a lot about running recently, and I here’s why I think you should be…

Every single creative person, whether you’re a filmmaker, a photographer, or an artist — everything that you make is now called “content.” And whatever it is that you used to do, now you’re just called a “content creator.” Credit where credit’s due, the idea for this post, and the quote…

This is a personal story — so feel free to skip it if it’s not your thing — but you might get something out of it nonetheless. I’ve been writing professionally for over 15 years, in that I get paid to do it, and I’ve had a blog for a…