About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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There’s something really right about how people around the world are being moved to tears at the amazing end-of-life “The Last Post” published posthumously by my friend Derek K. Miller. If you don’t know the story of Derek, you can read the Vancouver Sun’s tribute to him here. I didn’t know him well. I had [...]
Posted in Journalling, keeping it real, writing Also tagged blogger, burnaby, cancer, death, Derek K. Miller, derek miller, legacies, Penmachine, The Last Post, writing 4 Comments
Come Saturday I’ll be giving a talk at Vancouver’s “Mental Health Camp,” where the goal is to get people thinking about stigmas attached to a wide range of mental conditions — from ADHD and depression through to eating disorders and compulsions all the way to harder-core afflictions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Me, I’ll be [...]
Posted in adhd, Autobiographical, Being me, blogging, Current Events, Depression, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, Life 101, Loving and Knowing Yourself, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Psychology & Moods, Self-Love & Self-Esteem, Society, Specifically Steff, Twitter, writing Also tagged #mhcyvr10, being open, depression, how to open up, how to write, mental health, mental health camp, mental illness, revealing yourself, therapeutic writing, Vancouver, what to reveal, what to write about, writing, writing for therapy 3 Comments
Jul
01
2010
RANT: Elite? Who’s “Elite”?
Yesterday, someone in the Vancouver social media scene* sort of thought it ironic that I should slag “tweetups” as being elitist and circle-jerky, since I was avoiding the whole worldwide “Social Media Appreciation Day” thing that Mashable sponsored and launched right here in Vancouver. Apparently the thought is that I am now “elite” in Vancouver. [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me, blogging, Communication, Dimestore Philosophy, Facebook, internet, keeping it real, Life 101, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Specifically Steff, Steff Rants, Twitter, writing Also tagged elite, facebook, following, image, image-making, images, influence, IRL, klout, life online, online life, perceptions, personas, reality, snobbery, social class, social media, socmed, Twitter, writing 3 Comments
May
16
2010
Crisis of Confidence & Craft
My day daunts me. I must find nuggets of awesomeness that define me as a person and writer, deep within these stacks of posts. I’ve no idea where to begin. Other than the beginning, that is. In the next 27 hours, I have to somehow distill all that I have to say, the whole of my [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me, Dimestore Philosophy, Journalling, keeping it real, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Specifically Steff, writing Also tagged confidence, content, dreams, editing, fear, getting it done, james salter, jean malaquais, norman mailer, process, quality, standards, stepping up, terror, thinking, waiting, writers, writing Leave a comment
Legacies: When All That’s Done is Said