NevDull's Take On Things

  Chapter 1 — The Fall "This isn’t love, you know" The words hung in the air. Before and after they came, the air conditioner rattled and hummed and sirens outside wailed, but while those words were being spoken they encompassed the entire room. She was resolute. Jeanne drew strength from the conviction she’d found [...]

At 23, after living in my first apartment for a week, still fresh at my first real job, I came home from work one night at about 2:30AM (I worked a 4PM to 2AM shift), sat down on the carpeted floor in the middle of my living room in the dark, and asked myself, "Is [...]

In my process of self-evaluation about my creativity and my goals, I’ve been a little frustrated by my desire to do everything at once.  In considering a visit to MoMA tomorrow, I was thinking about how previously I’d based poetry on art, essentially working on both my perception of art and my skill at translating [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m prone to making up little ditties (no, not about Jack and Diane) and as it can be for dreams, I like to see what may have influenced them. I think that it’s been about six months since I began singing a little one-liner.  Here’s how I break it down: Influences: [...]

Despite not having played a musical instrument since 4th grade trombone, I picked up an M-Audio Oxygen 49 velocity-sensitive MIDI keyboard last Saturday, and after some deliberation, Cakewalk Sonar 7 Home Studio XL on Sunday.  I’ve been looking to find the right creative outlet, and recalling how music used to stimulate my story creation, and how [...]

I sometimes forget how wise I’ve been in the past.  I guess that’s one of the reasons I’ve ramped up my blogging lately… even when I find that what I’ve written in the past is bunk, it gives me insight into how I’ve changed.  Sometimes, however, I find gems, like this I wrote on August [...]

Amazon.com Widgets For those of us who use playlists as if they were theme songs in the movie of the life we’d like to be living, I wholeheartedly recommend a little Low Strung in your life.  Chill out with some cello, while being moved by its passion — uplifting and familiar, these instrumental tracks let [...]

Much is said of TED, the Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference — there are those who think it a brilliant gathering of thinkers with ideas that can change the world, and others who think it’s a bunch of rich liberal windbags trying to assuage their rich liberal guilt while forming an exclusive club to get [...]

While I certainly don’t love everything about this poem — I forgive myself youth both as a writer and as a person, as I was 18 and had just begun writing — I still connect with the emotions I felt at the time, and feel the same yearning.  At that time, I was scared about [...]

 I was reading an article in New York Magazine today which talked about how parenting turns out not to make most folks happier.  I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately, and I think that something in that article helped me understand what drives us.  Referencing Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, they mention his [...]