Logo by Alex Phelps, FTHS ’11 Today I had the pleasure of judging finalists in the poetry category of The Phoenix Art and Literature Contest. Sponsored by the Journalism Club at Foothill Technology High School, the contest received 564 entries in five categories–157 entries in poetry alone–from teenagers across Ventura County. I was truly impressed …
“What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?” -Mark Doty, “Visitation” It is now a matter of public record that my company recently laid off 40% of staff. But numbers do not do justice to the sense of loss. Today I rifled through comments written in our software source code management system …
“I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” -Seamus Heaney, “Personal Helicon” Wired Magazine‘s Paul Boutin recently declared personal blogging dead. Soon after, The Atlantic‘s Andrew Sullivan extolled the endurance of blogging’s “human brand” in a postmodern world of words. Me? I just keep writing. But why? In “Personal Helicon” Seamus Heaney …
