Archive - Pieced Together

Contemplating art while sipping coffee through an ashy orange haze

It's a beautiful day in LBC, but it's bittersweet.

Jan 13 •

Three things I'm working on to guarantee success in 2025

My Field Notes notebook is filled with ideas, tasks, and goals, and I'm sharing the most important ones with you.

Jan 9 •

Five essential lessons on storytelling I taught my mom this weekend

My mom wants to write more but doesn't know where to start. This is what I told her.

Jan 6 •

This is my growth plan for 2025

Sharing the hard data because someone has to

Jan 2 •

December 2024

I miss Anthony Bourdain

But I may have found his replacement

Dec 31, 2024 •

Did I just give myself an impossible task?

I can't run as fast as Tom Cruise. I might be doomed!

Dec 26, 2024 •

I was inches away from quitting

2024 did not turn out as I wanted, but there's still time

Dec 24, 2024 •

This One Time in Band Camp…

It's not like they described in American Pie

Dec 18, 2024 •

Words are Agnostic

I'm a content creator, and it's ok not to like that phrase, but I'm not changing it.

Dec 13, 2024 •

I Lack Social Grace

I'm reposting this piece from The Hungry newsletter because I wrote it and I can do what I want.

Dec 10, 2024 •

This is not what you think

Hi, it's Dave Conrey, but this is not The Hungry

Dec 4, 2024 •

The time I was held up at gunpoint

A true account of how buying car parts became the scariest night of my life

Dec 4, 2024 •

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