by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit, Writing, Writing Habits
Twice a week, every Monday and Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m., I drive my wife to her stable and wait for her to finish, giving me roughly two hours of downtime. Although I occasionally play around with my photography there (see my photo above of one of the more...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
If you want your writing to convey enjoyment, write about people you respect. Writing to destroy and to scandalize can be as destructive to the writer as it is to the subject.William Zinsser—On Writing Well I like this quote, and I like it even more if I edit it to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Writing
In one of my go-to inspirational books The Writer’s Image, the photographer Jill Krementz describes some advice she received from one of her colleagues: But the person who really taught me the most about photography was Ira Rosenberg, another staff writer at the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
I am an average writer. I am comfortable saying this for two reasons. First, I say it because it is true. There are some things which I do well, and there are some things which I do poorly. Writing, for me, is neither. Second, I say it because I aspire to become a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Creativity, Photography, Writing
I find the creative relationship between some of my blog posts and photography interesting. For example, in the blue heart photo, used in the post A Flaw in NLP-Enabled EHRs?, I am using the stone’s central scratch to highlight the concept of a flaw. In the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In the upper half of the image above, you see my MontBlanc Mechanical Pencil. I’ve had it for about ten years, and I use it every day. It’s my go-to morning journaling pencil. Although this particular model is out of production, the replacement cost for...
