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I'm Brandon Sneed. This is my blog. It's basically an online notebook where I highlight good writing, storytelling, journalism and other acts of creativity, and explore how such things are made. 

I'm an author and journalist who writes about people, sports, science, nature, and more. I love learning, adventures, life, and stories. I've covered everything from a guy who played Division I basketball while battling cancer ... to golf courses that eat golfers ... to turkey vultures invading a town. You can read all those and more below. 

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Quotes I Liked
From People I Interview and Otherwise

Wednesday
Apr182012

"Story-Truth"

"Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth."

— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Tuesday
Mar202012

"It is not the critic who counts"

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again." 

— Theodore Roosevelt

Sunday
Feb122012

"Repair"

"You me, all of us—we break the world. So all we can do is help repair it."

Leaves of Grass (the movie)

Tuesday
Jan032012

Colum McCann: "The Notion of Goodness"

“Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter — it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.”

— Colum McCann, Let The Great World Spin

Tuesday
Jan032012

Walter Bishop: "We're All Mutants"

"We're all mutants. What's remarkable is how many of us manage to appear normal."

 — Walter Bishop, "Fringe"