It’s hard not to take feedback on our writing personally, but let’s be honest here, sometimes we do. I’m pretty lucky in that no readers have taken a personal dislike to me and decided to trash everything I write (quite the opposite, really), but I do realize that’s probably just a matter of time as […]

So it’s the day before a big deadline, my first assignment for an international newspaper, and I’m nervous. Really nervous. I do what every sane journalist does in this situation– I spend hours, days, almost a week, hunched over my computer, trying to knock out that perfect first sentence, that perfect second sentence, that perfect […]

I’m quite lucky in that most of my editors trust me to find and work with a photographer that I like, and because of this, I have some idea of how the assigning and selection process works. I know some photographers who are amazing (both personally and professionally– as a policy, I don’t work with […]

A few years ago, I felt I was becoming a bit of a slacker, and so decided that it would be fun to track how much time I’m spending on what. I installed free software that would have me fill in how I spent every 30-minute segment of the day. What a bad, bad idea. […]