What is “Life in a Nutshell”? And who is this Brian L. Thompson? That’s me — weekly humor columnist for the St. Augustine Record in Florida, as well as a commentator on 89.9 FM WJCT, the NPR-affiliate in Jacksonville. And this is my column. It’s about my life. My headaches. My family. My dog and even my house.

It’s about the madness of life and all the oddities that come with it. It’s what goes right, and mainly what goes wrong. In a nutshell, it’s about anything people can relate to.

I’ve been writing “Life in a Nutshell” for almost a decade. I’m a former journalist and editor, and have written for numerous publications over the years including Scholastic’s Parent and Child, Folio Weekly, Jacksonville Magazine, Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal, Rosebud, and Delicious Magazine.

I’ve also won a number of awards over the years, including from the Florida Press Club for feature stories from Cuba in 2002, and most recently from the Florida Press Club for commentary writing in 2009. Other awards for this column have come from Humor Press and Readingwriters.com. In November of 2007, I was named Humor Writer of the Month by the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, and I served as a judge for Erma Bombeck Writing Contest in 2010.

I also work at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., where I’m editor of Flagler College Magazine, advise the award-winning newspaper, The Gargoyle, and teach journalism students. In 2009 I earned my master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, and my thesis on collegiate journalists won the 2009 Nordin Award for research from College Media Advisers. I am also the founder and former president of the Florida College Press Association.

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