Author! Author!

As most of you know, I'm out here in Vermont trying to make a living as writer. My day job at the business school is a nice hybrid of production-editorial stuff, as I get to reshape (regurgitate) content and put it up on the web or drop it in the form of brochures and (hopefully, soon-to-be) newsletters.

I'm also keeping in touch with my summer contacts at the med school and the engineering school, freelancing for their respective magazines: Dartmouth Medicine and the re-vamped Dartmouth Engineer. For the former, I tend to write short pieces about the intersection of medicine and the arts. This intersection manifests itself in a number of different ways: an artist dealing with disease, or a doctor using art to teach about medicine. The DMS office just put up their Fall 2004 issue on the web, so now you can read my interview with Cynthia Huntington in the article Dartmouth poet explores illness and self. I also wrote a story about massage and cancer in that same issue.

The engineering magazine isn't up on the web yet. For that, I did a short retrospective on the school's founder, Sylvanus Thayer.

My next project is for the engineering magazine's spring issue. I'm researching start-up companies founded by and/or currently run by faculty at Thayer. In addition to a survey of current companies, I'll be asking professors for tips on how they got started, what kinds of challenges they ran into, and also about the attitude towards entrepreneurship and education in general at Dartmouth. It should be neat. I'm also hoping to sign up for this six-week evening entrepreneurship course that will be open to Dartmouth staff this coming semester. For personal enlightenment as well as story ideas.

Speaking of entrepreneurs, you should check out my brother Jeremy's blog. He gets way more hits (and, ahem, comments) than I do.