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A Tribute to Charles Kuralt: The First Person to Predict My Success
Charles Kuralt was an American journalist who died in 1997 at the age of 64. He had received a Pulitzer Prize and many other prestigious awards during his illustrious career, but he will always be remembered by me as the first person to predict that I would one day become a successful writer. When I was just seven years old, Kuralt talked to my father about his aspirations for me. In doing so, he unknowingly predicted all the things I would accomplish later in life – including, of course, this article about him! Kuralt was an American broadcast journalist, author, and news anchor who is best known for his on-air…
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Belong
Minutes of daylight, as the minutes turn into hours, is the parlance of our time. Everytime I look in the mirror, I see myself staring right back at me; a fleeting glimpse of myself going round and round on a carousel cusp of why. I will never understand why my parents moved me around a lot. I was around eight years old when my parents moved me out of my birth place of New York City, and I had to change schools for the first time; I was in third grade. After grade seven, my parents moved me to a different school where I completed eighth grade. Grades nine through…
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Thomas Slatin, On Writing
Many people have asked me about my writing, specifically my process and craft, at long last the truth finally being revealed. So here are my views, Thomas Slatin, on Writing. Titles The majority of my titles come from specific moments or keyframes in my mind. Others are obscure references to pop culture, a hidden high five or nod, so obscure that it is overlooked and perceived as mundane. Modern education has taught us to overlook the titles and to under emphasize their importance, ignoring completely their purpose and critical influence in all that we create. Titles, a summary of our creations, and a unique identifier, the title is as important…
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Unexpected Denouement
I was originally planning on updating my About Page, but thought wisely and published this in the form of an aside. It might be considered to some to be an unexpected denouement, or a sudden and unplanned change in what is often referred to as regular programming. This is me. This is what I do. I am a writer.Before my father passed away, he told me that by the time I was walking and talking, I was writing. It started when I was around age 6 as scribbles, riddles, and rhymes. Random, obscure, and often without punctuation words would be scribbled on little bits of paper. My parents would often…
