After 15 years mostly in newspapers, I landed my dream gig at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, then freelanced around Europe for year, then back to Newsweek, serving for half of 2015 as the magazine’s Europe Correspondent, then as senior writer. I left in June of 2016, and am now a full-time freelancer.
WINSTON ROSS 
October 12, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I enjoyed your essay re your brother … food for thought for me. I am 81 years old and spend probably too much time on the net.
December 12, 2009 at 3:16 am
yeah, like carroll, i do enjoy your article on your brother’s “untreated” addiction. what’s the latest news about him? did you tell him about your article?
December 12, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Not much has changed. He read the story and thought it was fine, he said. I talked to him about treatment at length, and he’s not interested. So it goes….
May 18, 2012 at 3:04 am
Thanks for your article. My 17 yo son is starting to sleep rough,and try and find net access / cash for net cafe’s at homeless shelters, rather than come home where I have stopped access. The mental health system in Australia has yet to come to grips with the impact so I cant find anyone who is prepare to try and engage him to try and recover. I love him to bits, and hes always welcome home, but hes stuggling to find himself in the addiction and cant face me.
Keep writing, its so important clinicians see the adult affects of internet addiction, as they keep saying its just a teenager being a computer nerd. The mental health worker said i needed to ‘pull back’ and let him be himself. But my son then sat for 16 hours straight gaming and didnt eat. If undisturbed and has been known to urinate in his chair.
But no one takes this seriously, and parents blame themselves.
When he was in primary school was told by teachers to give him unlimited access to a computer as he was dyslexic. Now we realise its developmental issues made him more vulnerable to addiction. Thanks Tracey
November 11, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Hello Winston!
We just wanted to thank you for coming to our hot yoga studio yesterday- you did a wonderful job! If you are part of Facebook, we’d like to invite you to friend us if you are so inclined. You can find us at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/ZenSpot as well as follow us on Twitter at ZenSpotMBS.
Namaste!
Kelli & Michael
ZenSpot, Inc.
September 5, 2011 at 7:33 am
First time writer (blogger) here. First time reader of an article by you. I was fascinated by your piece on the washed up feet in your waterways so I put on, for the first time, my Agatha Christie head-wear.
This is the sceeniero I see as possible, only possible.
There are numerous suicides by jumping off bridges in that area.
There is a soul there who feels quite grief-stricken that people reach that point in their lives. This person does not want to be ID’d and wants to stay in the back-ground but also feels the pains of the victim’s families. The person has taken upon himself to watch for “jumpers” – in an area that does not have any witnesses and when spotted, the person will somehow retrieve the body. The person’s motovation is to bring a sort of closure to the family as to what has happened to their family member. The person has found a way to extract the bottom of a leg or legs, that would show that no foul-play has been done to the passed away person. It would show that the victim actually did drown. The legs are put back in the waterway as they will float for a time because of the footwear and be discovered by someone. The remaining part of the body is left in the river to decompose hopefully — or maybe be used for other purposes, hopefully not. The person has the good feeling that he has helped the family, that they have some sort of closure. The person remains a secretive person. The person can read about the results of his enddevours to do good in the newpapers and he feels better.
Just thinking.
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