Notes and adventures from the life of a freelance journalist.

Who I Am

I’m Brandon Sneed. I write because I love stories and I love thinking. I'm also beginning to think I might be a little crazy. Most of the time, in a fun way.

For money, I freelance, right now mostly for different magazines and newspapers around the Wilmington, NC area. I have something of a love-hate relationship with journalism, but I love it enough and am good at it, so I'm putting most of my energy into that right now.

For love, I also write essays, short fiction, novels and other books. In March 2010, I’ll finish my second book. (The first isn't published and never will be.) This new one, though, hopefully won’t be the last. It'll release in the fall of 2010. Check back often for more updates.

Here, I blog about life as I try to make the most of it. I'll post random thoughts and my life experiences as a growing young twenty-something. I tend to stress out a lot about life so I'll probably write about some of the things that are most often on my mind. Sometimes it's over small things like finding more work and becoming a better writer. Other times it's about big things like God and politics and people.

I'm also learning to relax, to live life at ease, so I'll probably write a lot about that, too.

Thanks for stopping by.

I’m Twittering, Too

• Totally wild story to send you to the holiday weekend: Father of six and husband of 25 years discovers he's a woman. | gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog… 2 days ago
• Headed to Milwaukee for work on some things all next week. Where should I eat? What else should I try to squeeze in the schedule? 3 days ago
• Magician pours beer from his iPad. But HOW!? (via @GaryBelsky) newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/05/video-… 3 days ago
• Springfield beats Joplin in law enforcement charity game: bit.ly/Lnm4um 3 days ago
• Charity game between Japan and Taiwan baseball teams raises 100 million yen for Fukushima disaster relief: bit.ly/Lnlrky 3 days ago

And my other Web pages

• My Facebook page
• My Twitter page
• The Lighthouse Project

Recent Posts

• The new web site
• Triathlon Training Update
• Triathlon Training + Blog Updates
• Podium finishers in the Y Dub Tri Club
• Triathlon Training Days 75-76 – the afflicted foot
• Triathlon Training Day 74 – the day I outran everyone (sorta)
• This week’s triathlon column … also, Triathlon Training Day 69-73
• No. 9 Northern Iowa beats No. 1 Kansas …. no, seriously, it just happened, I saw it. And that inspired this….(UPDATE: I’m wrong. Well, at least not completely right.)
• Triathlon Training Day 68
• Reflections on the past couple months [or, quitting coffee, waking up before dawn and spandex]