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Now appearing elsewhere, a collection of my work on and off the web.

• “Purloined,” CellStories, December 7, 2009
• “Chicago Transit Priority,” The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, ed. Lee Gutkind, W.W. Norton, August 2009
• “The Tragedy of Donnie Baseball,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Fall 2008
• “Familiar Rivalry,” Lovable Losers Literary Revue, July 2008
• “First Base of Last Resort,” Anatomy of Baseball, ed. Andrew Blauner and Lee Gutkind, SMU Press, 2008; Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2008
• “How the Father Fixed the Motherboard,” What Would MacGyver Do?, ed. Brendan Vaughan, Hudson Street Press, 2006
• “Sticking to the Dream,” Gapersblock, May 2005
• “Planning Parenthood,” Gapersblock, November 2004

• “Substitute,” Is Greater Than, January 22, 2010

• “How (Not) to Make Over Your Husband,” Oprah.com, January 6, 2010
• “Dinosaur Rock,” Time Out Chicago, April 2008

Regular contributor of parenting guides and product reviews for Ideal Bite, a website focused on eco-friendly living, 2009.

Entertainment reviewer and blogger for Babble.com, a parenting website, and its Strollerderby blog, March to December 2007:

• Television: My Friends Tigger & Pooh, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Bob the Builder, Thomas and Friends, The Doodlebops, Caillou, Postman Pat and Super Why!
• Music: Thaddeus Rex, We Wanna Rock; Ralph Covert, Ralph’s World; Jam Toast
• Books: Daddy Needs a Drink, by Robert Wilder and Dadditude, by Philip Lerman
• Clothing: Myself Belts

• “Bringing It Home,” a weekly column compiling commentary on local professional and college teams from media outlets outside the Chicago market, Chicago Sports Weekly, December 2007 to February 2008
• “Roger Clemens’ Out Pitch,” Chicago Sports Weekly, February 2008
• “Shooting the Hawks,” Chicago Sports Weekly, November 2007
• “No Joak,” Chicago Sports Weekly, October 2007
• “Tender Rivalry,” Chicago Sports Weekly, September 2007
• “Scary Potential,” Chicago Sports Weekly, September 2007
• “Long Day’s Journey Into Nite,” Chicago Sports Weekly, August 2007
• “Life on the Farm,” Chicago Sports Weekly, June 2007
• “You’re With Me,” Chicago Sports Review, March 2007

Associate editor and writer for Chicagoist.com, a local news and events blog. Wrote over 330 blog posts and provided editorial assistance to staff of 20 contributors, September 2005 to March 2007

Feature writer and blogger for 43Folders.com, a website about fostering personal productivity and creativity, October 2007 to August 2008:

• “The Problem With Ubiquitous Capture“
• “Cooking for the Creative Beast“
• “The Case Against Wish Lists“
• “Snow Day Hobbies“
• “MacBook Air: Specific Machines, Specific Uses“
• “Re-evaluating Your Online Commitments“
• “Why Are You Reading All That News?“
• “Sink or Swim: Managing RSS Feeds with Better Groups“
• “Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with a Little Free Time“
• “An Ass Pocket of iCal“
• “The Backs of Envelopes Are Blank for a Reason“
• “Put Your iTunes Library on a Diet“
• “Psychotherapy for the Chronic Switcher“
• “Confessions of a Chronic Switcher“

• “The Keys to Success,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, July 2008
• “Suvey Says,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, May 2008
• “Embedded Intelligence,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, March 2008
• “Good Morning Vietnam,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, January 2008
• “Powering Through,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, January 2008
• “A Hop, Skip, and a Jump,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, January 2008
• “Counting On It: The Lead-free Debate Continues,” IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries, November 2007