Seven years ago (OMG SEVEN YEARS AGO!), I wrote my first feature article for ARRAY Magazine.

To celebrate the arrival of warmer weather, I thought it would be nice to dust off the article and recirculate it to a wider audience and to hopefully inspire people to create...

"Blogging is not writing, it's just graffiti with punctuation." That's a line from the movie 'Contagion.' And as a writer who has been published in magazines, that's how I felt. But to disparage blogging is not the reason why I'm writing this today--I'm writing this as...