Writing

Sooner or later, a writer finds himself at a crossroads: he has exhausted his initial experience of the world and the ways of expressing it and he must decide how to proceed from there. He can, of course, seek ever more brilliant ways of saying the things he has already said; that is he can essentially repeat himself. Or he can rest in the position he achieved in his burst of creativity, subordinate everything he learned to the interests of consolidating that position and thus assure himself a place on Parnassus.

But he has a third option: he can abandon everything proven, step beyond his initial experience of the world, with which he is by now all too familiar, liberate himself from what binds him to his own tradition, to public expectation and to his own established position, and try for a new and more mature self-definition, one that corresponds to his present and authentic experience of the world. In short, he can find his "second wind."

—Václav Havel in "Second Wind," in "Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990"

Central Europe

"Bottoms Up at Chervona’s Xmas Song Video Shoot Set," reprinted in Oregon Music News with an introduction by Stephanie Salvey, January 9, 2012 [pdf]

"Praha My Prague: A Micro-Memoir," Czechmate Diary, 11/25/2011

"The Collapse of Federations: Elite Political Mobilization in the Dissolutions of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia," Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008 — [Cover - jpg][Introduction and Conclusion - pdf] — BUY NOW

"Images of Yugoslavia: Past and Present," The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. 3, no. 3-4, March/June 2004, pp. 82-87

Review in Southeast European Politics, Vol. V, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 103-105 [pdf, p. 10], of Michael E. Brown (ed.), "The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict," Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996

Review in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. 3, no. 2, January 2004, pp. 95-97 [pdf, p. 7] of Jasna Dragović-Soso, "’Saviours of the Nation’: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism," London: Hurst & Company, 2002, and Ivan Čolović, "The Politics of Symbol in Serbia: Essays in Political Anthropology," translated from the Serbian by Celia Hawkesworth, London: Hurst & Company, London, 2002

Various

Personal essay (‘day in the life’ for a crowdsourced, co-creation project): April 22, 2010 (40th Earth Day), in: the3six5: 365 days, 365 points of view, [pdf]
Collaborative book creation: GoodBookery Blog

Sustainability & Sustainable Marketing

"Use crowdsourcing for social and environmental sustainability," Sustainable Business Oregon, 5/21/2010

Introduction and Conclusion (with Megan Strand), in Peter Korchnak and Megan Strand, eds., “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business from America’s Hotbed of Sustainability”, Portland, OR: GoodBookery, 2010 — [Cover - jpg] — BUY NOW

“Circling Back to the Market” (2010 ReVisioning Value Conference Report), Springboard Innovation Blog, 4/29/2010
“Keynote Sticks and Stings” (2010 ReVisioning Value Conference Report), Springboard Innovation Blog, 4/28/2010