Post-Nomad

On the threshold of history

How a writer chooses what to write about

Aug 15 • 

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March 2025

Dance harder, dance more

Why I write about personal things in these dark times

Mar 17 • 

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February 2025

All my AI workflows

Construction and content marketing, language learning and financial advice: how LLMs have transformed my life—and why I keep them away from this…

Feb 19 • 

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November 2024

No time to despair

It's time to do culture

Nov 7, 2024 • 

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December 2023

My grandmother's memoir still influences me

In 1993, my grandmother published a memoir—the book and her example still influence me today.

Dec 7, 2023 • 

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November 2023

The lure of the dramatic life arc

Money, incentives, audience capture & writing online

Nov 30, 2023 • 

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July 2023

America's most powerful myth

With due respect to Heather Cox Richardson, America's best ideas aren't the radical declarations of equality from Jefferson and Lincoln.

Jul 4, 2023 • 

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May 2023

Why I write memoir

Also: I have my own 'Phoenix rising from the ashes' narrative—I just don't like telling those kinds of stories

May 15, 2023 • 

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July 2022

How to name your Substack

Introducing Post-Nomad: my process on how and why I rebranded after three years

Jul 18, 2022 • 

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December 2021

Things left unwritten

I'm turning 40 and wondering what is still do vs. what remains to give up

Dec 27, 2021 • 

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Haunted by Hemingway's "One True Sentence"

I've been working on a memoir and I want to give up.

Dec 4, 2021 • 

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January 2021

I've agonized for years about "What I'm doing with my writing" — and now I have an answer

Also, it's 2021: Expect a lot more from me on topics you're not used to

Jan 5, 2021 • 

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