by Hillary DePiano | Dec 9, 2012 | External Stimuli
I was savvy with computers at a young age (which is especially impressive when you consider that the average person didn’t even have a computer back when I was young). Not only did I know the basics, my dad also taught me some basic computer programming as a...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 13, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
On Monday, October 29th, Hurricane Sandy came to visit the northeast of the US. When I look at the calendar, that looks so very long ago but it really feels like it just happened. We live in the northeast of NJ which was right in the path of it. I promised I’d...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I have run into very few celebrities in my life despite the fact that I used to work in entertainment. I’ve actually spoken to still fewer and I can actually think of only a handful that I’ve actually exchanged multiple sentences with. One of these was...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 15, 2012 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Can you spot the moment my life went off the rails? It’s been an… interesting summer. Stressful is a grossly over-used word (especially by me… guilty!) but it’s really the only word to describe the last few months. All sorts of stuff was and is...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 4, 2012 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, My Writing, Personally...
There’s this weird spam-bot like Twitter account called AdvisorIsIn that just tweets the same messages over and over again (it seems like about once every two days or so it repeats its cycle). I’ve tried writing to “Eve” multiple times but it...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 3, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
My little brother’s birthday is today. (He’s also technically not little anymore because he has multiple feet on me but, whatever.) His name is Sam. Meaning someday when my future children sing “Yankee Doodle Boy” it will be factually accurate...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
