Brennan's Old Blog

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. -Jack Layton

 

Essay in the Woods

Untitled | Source Writing for the Non-Writer Writing has been a passion of mine since childhood, but like a lot of people, I’m not currently entrenched in the corruption of a national government or dazzling celebrity. I’m just a regular person,...

Being a Better Lifehacker

Helping Hands // Source While I definitely think it’s healthy for people to have dialogues and get into disagreements — sometimes passionately — I also think those who constantly and solely bicker about the current state of affairs aren’t actually providing anything meaningful themselves. https://medium.com/p/ed5603d5d26a...

A Youthful Apology

Solidarity // Source An Open Letter to People I’ve Wronged Looking back, I wasn’t a good person for most of my teenaged years. It seems as though there was almost an endless amount of time when I acted reckless and immature. I...

Anti-Medium

Medium new logo development sketches. That title is bothersome, isn’t it? It instinctively goes against all of the advice that’s out there. The advice about how you’re supposed to be succinct, yet descriptive. Or that you need to have a...