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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 | parenting | politics | presidents | science | technology | religion


Ongoing series

Media of the moment: An occasional digest of what I’m reading, watching, and listening to.

Recent views: Where I share the photos I used to post on Instagram.

Links of the moment: Cool stuff I’ve read ’round the Web.

Tools of the moment: A very occasional inventory of my technological life.

Podcasts of the moment: Snapshots of the shows in my podcast feed.

Quotes of the moment: Quotes from here and there that have stuck with me.

Synchronicity: Me discovering two or more works of art accidentally talking to each other. 

Critters of the moment: Bugs and other beasts I’ve managed to photograph.

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.


Collections

Cool Words: My handpicked collection of splendiferous or recondite etymological artifacts

Typewriters: Homebase for my beloved hobby

POTUS Reading List: Tracking my goal of reading a biography about every United States president


Done but not forgotten

Cool Civil War Names (2011-2017): Brief biographies of well-named Civil War-era men 

Chad Picks Classic Flicks (2006-2010): A movie review series I did for my college newspaper

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