I blame it on the Metamucil ad in my Facebook feed. The fiber supplement showed up the other day, right before Thanksgiving, and I got to thinking about how the advertisements that appear in the feed are most likely inspired by links and the content of status updates shared by users. Have I really started…
The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun in November 2013: Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann saw a future together. In 1971, he was an N.C. State student and she attended nursing school at Watts Hospital – now part of the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics…
The following column appeared in The Herald-Sun on Nov. 16, 2013: My friend Colin – another adoptive parent – asked over lunch last week whether I felt like a dad now. “Has it really sunk in?” It’s been nearly six months since Catherine and I adopted John Michael in Asheville and brought him home to…
Few things get my eye twitching like I’m Chief Inspector Dreyfus in “The Pink Panther” than a lead in a newspaper article like this: “Fifty people gathered together at GreenSpacePark on Saturday for the Shiny Happy Music Festival.” It’s not that an opening sentence such as this is technically wrong. The problem instead is that…
