Greeking out in Durham

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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in May 2014: I haven’t started spritzing everything with Windex. Yet. But I’m thinking about it. It’s been a wild year since I took the unprecedented (in my life) step of getting baptized, joining the Greek Orthodox Church so that I could marry into a (very) Greek family. Genetically,…

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Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

The Art of Consequence No. 1: Killing time on OtherSpace

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“Where some see coincidence, I see consequence. Where others see chance, I see cost.” – The Merovingian in “Matrix Revolutions” I’m a serial killer. In the past 16 years, I’ve amassed a body count that would make Dexter Morgan feel like an amateur. Usually, I did it because the dice told me I should. Sometimes…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

Remembering a man who wouldn’t quit

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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in May 2014: Michael Butts met his future wife in 2003 in the bookstore at Durham Technical Community College. She needed a cassette recorder for a class in anatomy and physiology. She couldn’t find one. The burly man – a formal football player at N.C. Central University who worked…

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Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns