Colin Dullaghan

Well my MOM is coming down to visit this weekend, and I’ve sworn my coworkers to secrecy.
No one is to make any mention of my habitual last-minute arrivals, haphazard desk-tidying policy, or needing to be told three times where we keep the silverware.
None of that.
And there will be ZERO bringing up of the fact that [...]

Okay, since I can’t quite put South Carolina into words yet, as my lovely mother-in-law requested, I’ll offer just the earnest assurance that I’m working on it, and post this image of my new computer’s desktop, which displays Mac OSX’s Dashboard feature any time I press the F12 key.

Key differences between here and there: you’ll [...]

For CreateAthon last week I wrote a radio PSA, trying to get folks to call a hotline to a Literacy program and, ideally, learn how to read better. And today I was going back and trying to decide what sort of voice I wanted for the commercial… whether, say, a mature gentleman with a distinguished [...]

(In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day)
I bet it rules to play Scrabble on a pirate ship, at least if you’re a pirate, because you can have a tray full of Rs and still be able to spell a word.
Even if you only have *one* r, or don’t have any at all but [...]

Right now at RIGGS we’re getting started with CreateAthon, an all-day-and-all-night outpouring of work for nonprofit organizations around the country. It’s a little frightening to be undertaking such a thing on my fourth day on the job, but so far it’s been fun. The clients are all interesting and giving, and I’m really excited to [...]

I’m typing this from the floor of our new apartment, momentarily borrowing someone’s wireless network. (Thanks, Charlene1.)
Outside the window stand tall, Southern pines, draped with Spanish moss. Behind me is Vince, napping on the fresh white carpet, still striped from the vacuum.
We’re headed to the store to get a wastebasket and a bath mat, and [...]