I was never a big picture guy. The future was never something I planned for, or even really thought much about. What mattered was what I could see. If things stayed the same, so be it; if something changed, I’d deal with it. It wasn’t some cognoscente carpe diem ethos; I was lazy, sort of [...]
The writing bug first bit me in 11th grade. I was taking a Journalism class, and for our final exam my teacher gave me two options: interview the gym teacher about the track-and-field team, or write a short story. I had no idea what went into writing a short story, but interviewing the gym teacher [...]
