: About Me

I'm a writer, and it turns out I'm no good for anything else. So now I have to give up and find a way to make it as a writer, and forget that it's probably the hardest way on earth to make a living.

I should have accepted all the heartbreak and failure that goes with learning the craft and never tried to be anything else. Or maybe not. Maybe I'm a better writer at 35 than at 15, not just because of what I've learned about writing, but because of what I've learned from everything I ever failed at, and everything I tried that didn't take me where I wanted to go.

My passion is ...

learning. I write to learn as often as I write to communicate.

I know too much about ...

nothing.

My parents always told me ...

it's more important to love your work than to make money.

My childhood ambition ...

To be like S.E. Hinton, who sold "The Outsiders" at age 17.

My favorite memory ...

alone in the yard at four in the morning, watching a meteor shower.

Why I write ...

I have to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading this, watching and listening to Project Runway.

My first job ...

bussing tables.

My best moment ...

anytime I can forgive and let it go.

My inspiration ...

rare moments of joyful wisdom.

Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Competition, not government regulation, is the best way to protect consumers

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How's that burger taste? Good? Great. How do you know it's not rat, cat, and roadkill? You don't, actually, but government regulations tend to make getting away with that sort of thing a trifle more difficult than 'competition'. After all, if the government didn't regulate industry, industry wouldn't compete. They're not run by fools, and if the biggest, baddest gangs in the United States can play nice-nice to rack up the drug money, it's not too hard for corporations that have never engaged in actually shooting each other to do the same. Historically, we know darn well that is what corpor...

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