This is where I call bullshit. CARRIE NEVER READS! Fresh out of shows to binge, my girlfriend and I are watching Sex and the City all the way through. It’s my first time watching the whole thing (okay, maybe second) and her chance to brush up on the one or…

An excerpt from my father’s memoir — Make Peace or Die: A Life of Service, Leadership, and Nightmares — in which he asks to be sent to war. In November, 1951, Charles U. Daly was at Quantico training to lead a Marine rifle platoon and thinking the Korean War would…

Last year, Jocko Willink featured a conversation with my father and an early draft of Make Peace or Die on episode 196 of his podcast. Dad describes the experience in the epilogue : In the summer of 2019, I sat down with retired Navy SEAL and bestselling author Jocko Willink…

The last days of the French summer that wasn’t Strasbourg, France: As France cautiously adjusts to the new normal, one summer tradition is ideally suited to social distancing guidelines: outdoor dining and drinking on terraces. Outdoor seating has long been a mainstay of the French dining experience. But as the…

Looking back at some of these drafts, I wish I had used the energy I spent writing them to document my journey rather than describe a destination I hadn’t even reached. I currently have 44 unpublished drafts in Medium. I was browsing through them today to find something to post…

“You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a cautious creative..” -George Lois I assume you’ve read Bird-by-Bird, The Elements of Style, and Stephen King’s On Writing, (all of which are incredible) so they aren’t on this list. Here are seven unsung gems…

Yesterday I wrote about getting back in the habit of writing every day. One of the most powerful ways to build that habit is to track your writing. It’s simple: Keep a record of everything you write today. Do it every day for a week and see what you get…

3 pages every day is 1,095 pages per year This morning I woke up at 6:00, brewed my coffee, and wrote three pages of fiction by hand. It was my first time writing fiction in over a month. I felt like shit, not just because it was early but because…

Christophe Boutes left school and became a baker to fund his musical education. Baking by morning, and studying music by day and night, he made two dreams come true. His La Mouginoise des pains…