Interviews

I Grow, Boy!

In Elsewhere, Family, Interviews on 12 December 2007 with 4 comments

I did a fun interview with Gayla Trail of You Grow Girl about my burgeoning orchid habit. Check it!

NaBloPoMo Q&A 10: Lightning Round

In Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 29 November 2007 with 2 comments

At the beginning of this month, I invited questions from you to help me through NaBloPoMo. We’ve covered the mundane, digital identities, politics, the web biz, my cat, chopping blocks, academia, and storytelling. But before the month is out, I wanted to do a quick lightning round to answer as many of the remaining questions [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 9: Six for Dinner

In Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 28 November 2007 with 7 comments

Myla asked:
If you could have a dinner party and invite any six people from history (past or present), who would you invite, and why?
It was too much effort to try and consider everyone who ever lived, and dead people are boring at parties anyway, so I limited myself to the living. I’d invite:

Woody Allen, [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 8: Never Tell a Story Like It’s Not About You

In Interviews, Life, NaBloPoMo, Q&A, Stories, Writing on 25 November 2007 with 3 comments

Louise asked:
I was wondering if you have ever regretted your transparency on the web. Has it worked as a negative or positive influence?
I was 23 years old the first time it happened. It was two hours into 1996. And I was bummed out. So I wrote down how I felt, posted it to my website, [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 7: Academia

In Education, Interviews, Journalism, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 17 November 2007 with 2 comments

Donna B. asked:
We were thrilled by your presentation at NCHC today, and appreciated your challenge to academia to make its medium (of liberation and empowerment) match its message (of sit down, shut up, and believe what we tell you). I’d love to hear your reflections from your drop-in visit to the world of Honors education, [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 6: Chopping Blocks

In Creativity, How to, Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A, Writing on 15 November 2007 with 2 comments

Or: How To Bust Your Creative Block
Megan asked:
Say someone’s in a rut. What advice would you offer for getting out? ie, how do you stay creative and engaged? Who/what keeps you accountable?
And Joey asked:
How do you overcome creative block? What inspires you?
I had an English teacher in high school who said something I still think [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 5: 10 Things About Spoo

In Interviews, Life, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 8 November 2007 with 3 comments

Stefanie Noble asked:
Tell me anything and everything about Spoo. The onset of the pups over the years has caused a lack of updates on Spoo and plants named Fred (which is not to say that I don’t love any and all dog-related information as well).
It’s true, Spoo exists behind the scenes at Casa Chawazek. The [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 4: The Web Biz

In Business, Geek, How to, Internet, Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 6 November 2007 with 3 comments

Zazzy asked:
I’m studying web development. Do you have any tips for crossing that hump between moderately-talented-amateur to professional (or you know, semi-almost-professional)?
I’ve worked in the web biz since 1995. Back then, there were no courses in web stuff. No degrees. So the people who got hired were the ones with “killer homepages” (to use the [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 3: Politics

In Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Politics, Q&A on 4 November 2007 with 8 comments

Hannah ranted:
the floor is open, you say…ok, so what do you think of your country’s invaision of Iraq and the wounded US troops who cannot get proper medical care upon their return home? And what do you think of the fact that there is footage in which, your President, George Walker Bush is being told [...]

NaBloPoMo Q&A 2: Identities and Pants

In Community, Interviews, NaBloPoMo, Q&A on 3 November 2007 with 5 comments

Nikol Hasler, from the awesome Midwest Teen Sex Show, which is not what you think it is, asked:
Since so much of what you do has to do with a social network of screen names, could you discuss intelligent ways of speaking with all of these people while maintaining some sort of life? What is the [...]