Stephen Yeargin

I stopped off this morning at the convenience store to grab a cinnamon roll for breakfast, as I often do if I forgot or did not have the time for a bowl of cereal. As I walked up to the counter with my purchases, I picked up a copy of the newspaper. On the cover, [...]

A wardrobe malfunction involving a bean burrito forced a change of plans this evening. Samantha and I were about to walk in to the Digital Nashville mixer when it happened. As we drove off, giving our parking pass to another attendee, I could not help but notice that I felt more than a bit under-dressed.
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Creative energy is a limited but renewable resource. I have certainly found its limits, often long before I really needed it to run out. Even when tackling a project of a very technical nature (things that make Excel spreadsheets look exciting), I at the very least need a sort of momentum to keep thinking my [...]

It is really human nature to maintain a bit of pride in one’s work or status. We are taught from a young age to be proud of what we do, but to do so without discounting the works of others. I have witnessed first-hand growing up in a small rural town what happens when the [...]

I believe that there are two groups of Internet users: a group that uses it for a specific purpose and those that idly browse a set of sites on a semi-regular basis. At work, I fall into the first group where any venture off of the company’s internal network is to track down a specific [...]

Vacation season is upon us with schools out for the summer and the weather warming up. My inbox has been filled lately of out of office notes and even a few e-mails at home to friends have come back a few days later with an apology for not being around to answer them sooner. I [...]

I am looking forward to the coming days when the local school system wraps things up for the summer. Summer, or at least late spring, means that there is not a temperamental crossing guard who never gives any warning that it is indeed your car she intends to stop to allow a parade of 15 [...]

Ice had formed on my windows this morning as I drowsily slumped into the front seat of my vehicle. The cold snap overnight had caught me by surprise and without a coat. I had also managed to forget to grab a frozen lunch on my way out the door, but those stairs are even more [...]

A popular cliché among those of us born in the 1980s is “Man, I feel old!” This statement comes out when confronted with familiar things that are either separated by a extended amount of time or unfamiliar concepts that only apply to an even younger generation. Today’s “I feel old” moment is brought to you [...]

I had read a bit about the appeal of East Nashville in the cover story in The Nashville Scene last summer and remembered a passing reference to an insanely popular mailing list for the neighborhood. As the Internet and a connected world ceased to be an awe-striking concept around age nine for me, I was [...]