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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Free Writing

In the last few weeks I鈥檝e been listening to the Mortified podcast, which features adults reading their adolescent diaries in front of a live audience, with no exaggeration, no embellishment, 鈥渏ust god-given awkwardness鈥. Every episode is guaranteed to produce cringing smiles.

I kept a diary of my own for six years, running from grade nine through my first year of university.

Friday, November 6, 2015

Stop looking at Instagram and just get started!

(Unless it's our Instagram聽you're looking at!)

When you look at someone else鈥檚 Instagram account you see the great vacation, the beautiful hair, the new girlfriend, and the winning game. You don鈥檛 see the peeling sunburn, all the days she hid under a hat, the heartbreak it took him eight months to get over, or聽the years and years of practice that led to a single successful game.