The words we choose matter.
How we choose to share stories in our lives communicates as much as the words we use.
Author: Brendan
HighEdWeb makes me cry.
I leave HighEdWeb in tears. Every year. I worked in broadcast journalism for eleven years before joining higher education in 2014. News is a challenging field for self-identifying optimists like…
A shooting in Virginia
The murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward is disturbing. All violent crimes are—or should be. But what happened in Virginia was different. It was perverse.
Writing about reading about writing
I’ve become a bit obsessed with writing. Not writing itself, but the mechanics of it. About what makes a sentence pop. About telling engaging stories. And about funny little things…
On signing off
The past year has been insane. I left television exactly a year ago, ending a decade-long career of news producing. There would be no more late nights, no more breaking…
Post Traumatic Sox Disorder
Frayed nerves. Sleepless nights. An impending sense of doom. I’m suffering all the symptoms of a Red Sox World Series appearance. I should be happy my beloved Sox are a…
Taking risks to be happy
“Okay,” I said. “Let’s go for it.” Most people don’t make major life decisions based on wisdom hatched from a fortune cookie, but at that moment, Jenn and I couldn’t…
So. This is my blog.
I always believed starting a blog would be scary. I toyed with the idea for years but somehow convinced myself the time wasn’t right. Some days I believed I was…
Brendan Foley 