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I’ve written about a lot of different things since 2006. Here’s what comes up the most:

books | film | history | libraries | typewriters | life | writing | music | language | lists | best-of | reviews | nature | family | design | America | politics | presidents | science | technology | television | travel | religion | parenting

Collections

Some curated ways to explore my writing and other interests:

Lists

• Cool words
• Presidential biography reading list
• Quotes I like

Ongoing series

• Media of the moment
• Recent views
• Tools of the moment
• Podcasts of the moment
• Quotes of the moment
• Insects inspected

Miscellaneous fun

• Synchronicity: Me discovering two or more works of art accidentally talking to each other 
• This Is My: Spotlights on my significant everyday items
• Magazine Mashups: Fun with collage
• Better The Beatles: My tongue-in-cheek tweaks to the Fab Four’s discography
• Chad Picks Classic Flicks: A movie review series I did for my college newspaper

Projects

• Cool Civil War Names (2011-2017): Brief biographies of well-named Civil War-era men 
• The Simba Life (2014-2016): A digital publication I created, edited, and published
• Refer Madness (2015-2020): Dispatches from the library reference desk
• Teach Me How To Dewey (2014-2016): My irreverent tour through (half of) the Dewey Decimal Classification system
• The Wedding Singer at NCC (2011): My backstage photo documentary of the student-directed stage production of The Wedding Singer at North Central College