I really meant to do something with my summer. Instead I ended up with an intense addiction that caused my eyes to burn from prolonged screen exposure.

July 21, 2007, 2 p.m. After 13 hours of almost continuous reading, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was sitting closed on my bed staring back at me. “All was well,” J.K. Rowling wrote at the end, but was it? Sure, the story was wrapped up nicely, but all was not well in my life. [...]

There were strict rules: no talking, no phone calls, no chewing loudly and no interruptions of any sort. I took these rules very seriously and made sure that others were aware of the rules as well, since I had developed them. The rules, you may be wondering, applied to my favorite hour of television from [...]

There comes a time in every reporter’s life when everything slows down. Things aren’t like they used to be, and pants don’t quite fit anymore. It’s a time of reflection to a more familiar, bloom-lit place, where if someone said he was going to “shove some nerds into his locker,” he was referring to candy [...]