by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Writing
This week, on my drive home after my Saturday morning photoshoot (where I took the above photograph), I came up with what I thought was a new, super-cool hashtag: #Phoetry: A photograph-inspired poem. To my surprise—and momentary dismay—when I got home I found this...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
Although, like most physicians, I fancy myself a writer, I will never fancy myself a good writer until I have mastered the table above, and have forever excised the verb form of the word impact from my writing for everything other than boxing matches and car...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
From a writer’s perspective, I am curious about my use of emojis. When I use them—which mostly on Twitter—is it as a shortcut, a writing crutch, a tool to use because I am either too lazy or too craft-deficient to write with more nuance and elegance? Or do they expand...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Twitter, Writing
Last week was my #MyTwitterAnniversary! 13,400 tweets over 9 years. That’s roughly 4 tweets a day. But have I ever written one great tweet? One real tweet? One true tweet? Or, quoting Hemingway (rather than JRR Tolkien, and “one tweet to rule them all!”), have I done...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Photography, Writing
For any projects which I intend to pursue seriously, I start off with pen and paper, writing out my goals. For example, I am taking my eighth or ninth photography course, and here are the goals which I just posted to my Flickr group: Would love to hear other...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Habit, Writing
For me, the most valuable real estate on my iMac is the upper-left corner of my screen. Why? Because it is a “hot corner” : A digital action initiated by cursor placement in any of the screen corners through the iOS Screensaver app, which in the case of my...
