Writer, Creative Director, Musician, & Illustrator

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Archives for March 2010

Pilgrimage to Bigfoot Country

March 25, 2010 @ 11:35 pm

Bigfoot carvingI’ve been kind of obsessed with Bigfoot since I was a kid. I read all the books, checking the same ones out of three different libraries over and over again. I wrote book reports. I drew pictures. When I hiked through the woods alone growing up in rural PA, I thought I’d be lucky enough to see one if I wished hard enough. You’d think it would be something I have outgrown by the time I became an adult, but I never did.


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Will Tuttle lecture (author of "The World Peace Diet")

March 21, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

A few days ago I read a blog entry by one of my favorite animal rights/vegan blog writers, Angel Flinn, enthusing about author/musician and vegan activist Will Tuttle and his new book, The World Peace Diet, which recently hit #1 on Amazon.

I checked out his website, worldpeacediet.com, and lo and behold, he was scheduled to speak a 10-minute drive from my home here in San Francisco at the First Unitarian Universalist Society. It was one of those coincidences I couldn’t ignore.


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My featured article on TalentZoo.com: 'Copywriters Need Feedback, Not Prescriptions'

March 10, 2010 @ 8:27 pm

Edits happen. Where copy tends to get off track, though, is when the client (or manager) rewrites everything without reinforcing in any way their role as the informant and your role as the doer. Read my entire article here.