Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the things I’m learning from re-reading my journal entries from my first year as a freelancer is the value of a deadline. Any kind of deadline. Continue reading Long wait for a short story, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes A secret agent resigns from his service and awakens in The Village, a futuristic prison on a remote island. Everyone has a number instead of a name. Oh, yes, there’s also this strange salute: “Be seeing you.” Continue reading Be seeing you, 1979
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Although this series may appear as yet another rabbit hole I’ve fallen down in my quest to finish a project — any project — it has several benefits. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 11
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I still sing the song today:
Procrastination,
Pro-cras-tin-a-tion!
It’s making me late.
It’s making me la-a-a-ter… Continue reading Procrastination, pro-cras-tin-a-a-tion, 1979
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Clemens, Diana Rigg, Patrick MacNee, Sean Connery, even my friends Larry and Tex, are all gone now. Ars longa, vita brevis. Continue reading Transitions, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes One doesn’t often move from a job interview right into the broadcast booth, but that’s what my journal shows I did on this date 44 years ago: Continue reading On the air, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the hashtag generation, in those days # meant number and @ meant at, as in 5 pencils @ 10¢. Typewriters had them on the same key. How cozy! Continue reading Nothing to lose, 1979
Reading Time: < 1 minutes My assignment ‘crumped,’ but I still hadn’t learned my lesson. Tomorrow is not another day. Today is the most important day there is. Continue reading … except when it’s not, 1979
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Stringer rates mean writers pay their own expenses. I was less than enthusiastic about another long round trip for less pay than a bag boy would get. Continue reading Fifteen dollars is fifteen dollars … , 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes An author and educator friend likes this “story arc.” I hadn’t thought of a journal/memoir as a story, but I suppose the best ones are. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 10
