Feature Writing


Who is Matt Gillis? 2008: I profiled a 29-year-old college senior who's wife was about to deliver. He talked about his friend killing himself, surviving cancer, and what it felt like to hold his daughter for the first time. See more





 THE END 2008: My final forlorn farewell to college and everything it meant to me. I write about a roommate leaving for Iraq, studying in London and the pointlessness of analyzing the analysis of other people's thoughts on thinking. See more




Who is Robert Morin? 2007: While writing a news article, spoke to the main "media cataloger" in my college's huge library. He turned out to be a millionaire who kept baloney sandwiches in his front pocket and hadn't missed a day of work since 1966. So I profiled him. See more



A War of Freedom 2006: After we invaded Iraq I began talking on an online political Islamic Forum. For years my opinion of the US's involvement in the Middle East shifted from one extreme to the other, until I visited Egypt. See more



An Atheist Goes to Bible Study 2005: Being devoutly nonreligious I decided to take advantage of an invitation to go to a weekly Bible study. Along with studying the Good Book I studied what turned out to be a great group of people. See more