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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

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

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