I started as a writer. Along the way, I’ve pursued a lot of different interests, especially in the digital world. But I missed the writing.
So I’ve started writing again.
– Tom Sakell
You can’t slide these dying eyes
Dad was dying and I was ready. I was ready to close his eyes. It was my turn to get this right.
Why I’m a Digital ideaist
At work, I’m a coder, project leader, dreamer, realist, pragmatist, strategist. Call me a digital ideaist.
Watch your world, like a tide, retreat and slide away
Pop passed in the 9 o’clock hour. In the morning. It was a Friday. And he left half past the hour.
Tomorrow and today
Ours is a life of perpetual interruption. We don’t always agree, but we are aligned; we are together.
Three ghosts meet a fool in a bar
I’m fever-dreaming; all four of us know it. Can the people at the bar hear us? I don’t care. Our time is short.
Three (free) writing tools to engage digital readers
Is reading your content the best part of a user's day? Does it make you smile?
The damn eulogy
An American success story. You’d think he was blessed. That he was lucky.
Taking a long way home
Seems like a year ago I went to New York to bury Pop. It’s been 2 weeks.
Riding with Tommy Bourne
With the confidence of a lone lion, I shift with the stick in my wrong hand whilst sitting in the wrong car seat and driving on the wrong side of…
Riding with the talking dead
The Pop I would conjure in my passenger seat is about 47 years old: Confounded by lingering misery. He was by himself.
Punctuation is like a carrot
When do punctuation marks stay inside the quote marks? Always. Imagine you're planting a vegetable garden.
Present simple messages simply
I doubt the people at Metro are bad people or don’t care about making good learning aids. They should let a designer build one good sign.
My baby just wrote me a letter
He’s happy that I’m open with him about my feelings, that I’m less angry. That I tell him about my “depressed moments.” And I do.
Jo’burg
First, you get a paper cup. Soft-peddle your chatter. Don’t explain, just beg.
Jared Spool in action
Jared Spool makes his living showing the rest of us the “obvious” paths, providing the rest of us the a-ha moments.
Going through Pop’s drawers
As I’m going through my Dad’s papers, I’m telling myself he deliberately left what he left.
Falling down, drunk
He falls smack on his back and his feet wiggle in the air. How did he not whack his head? How is he not bleeding?
Conflicting priorities
I thought this was an interesting paradox: one construction project trumping another construction project. Though both projects yield a permanent product, management prioritized the structure. Prospective mothers will hopefully be…
Commas are like a choo-choo train
When's the right time to use - and not use - a comma in a series in a sentence?
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world
See why these fair-skinned people dress in full-length wet suits to surf an an ocean that’s always in winter.
Can’t get out of my own way
There’s a man in my door; he is me .
A play performed in another way can be so sweet
I just saw a play within a film on a movie screen. Maybe you’ve heard of it: Macbeth?
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