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What I Think About When I Should Be Thinking About Nothing
Is it fiction when you recount something you've actually thought about but that has never happened? I've probably spent more time reading about meditation, its techniques, its benefits, and its practice than I've actually spent meditating. I know from this research that meditation can be active, like walking and focusing on your feet moving one in front of the other. It can be done to music, or guided by an Xanax-voiced narrator. You can try to think about nothing - quite har
Scott
Feb 27, 20244 min read


Benefit-Cost Analysis Sample
This is the output of a BCA completed a few years ago...part of a winning proposal, I should add. BCAs, especially when they are tailored...
Scott
Feb 21, 20241 min read


3,389 Miles
An occasionally fictional piece written for Redbud Writing Project's Braided Prose Class (8-2023) The road that brings you to Ely is a...
Scott
Aug 6, 20239 min read


The Death of a Critic: a Review of Reviewing
[This was written for a Gotham Writer's Workshop.] The Gotham assignment for reviews makes some assumptions that don’t align with the...
Scott
Apr 18, 20232 min read


She Still Loves Horses
Baton Rouge is one of those places that changes, but not really. When Stephanie Gregory Clifford lived there in the 1990s Louisiana’s...
Scott
Apr 18, 20232 min read


Quitting. Cold. Turkey.
The first and only year that I attended Appalachian State University the school cancelled classes for four days because of bad weather,...
Scott
Apr 18, 20232 min read


A Cookie a Day
Margaret (not her real name) drives about 20 minutes each way to get to the little cookie shop where she works. The shop is located on...
Scott
Apr 18, 20232 min read


Traffic and Crashes in North Carolina's Counties
Tableau Storyboard discussing how traffic volumes and crashes are and aren't related; what factors contribute. (Note: clicking on image...
Scott
Dec 28, 20221 min read


Abortion Rights in America, 2022
A Tableau interactive chart showing historical and current (2022) positions of Americans based on Gallup surveys. Click on the image to...
Scott
Nov 9, 20221 min read


Greece, Siga (Slowly)
An excerpt from Greece where I stayed in Athens and the sticks on a work-for-lodging deal at a luxury resort in the Peloponnese Region....
Scott
Jul 30, 20222 min read


Climate Change: Technical Ask for Energy Company
This was the original version of a response to a set of proposals that Duke Energy had issued for dealing with climate change and...
Scott
Jul 8, 20222 min read




One to Watch: Writing in Good Time
A derisive comment you don't hear much any more is that "she's a real watchmaker," meaning that the she in question focuses on creating...
Scott
May 26, 20223 min read
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