Punxsutawney Phil for President!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans usually feel they are forced to choose between the elephant and the donkey. But what about the groundhog? Continue reading Punxsutawney Phil for President!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans usually feel they are forced to choose between the elephant and the donkey. But what about the groundhog? Continue reading Punxsutawney Phil for President!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Opportunity knocked once. It knocked again. Then it shrugged and walked away. Suddenly it was back and spoiling for a fight. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: News on the March!
Reading Time: 2 minutes The more I learn about them, the more it becomes clear that this invention was more than a “let’s make a wallpaper!” moment. Continue reading Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day 2024!
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had the same premonition that a colleague had six months earlier. It seemed to be the same still, small voice that guided me there in the first place. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: On my way out?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The hardest part was realizing that my colleague on the same rung of the corporate ladder would soon be my supervisor. My ego didn’t take that well. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Promotion envy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1980 election featured a Democratic incumbent whose first term was rocked by runaway inflation, a gas shortage, and a Mideast hostage situation. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: New Hampshire primary
Reading Time: 2 minutes Moral: Get both sides of any story, and make sure you understand the sequence of cause and effect. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Who fired whom?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Film critic Roger Ebert called this film “one of the most audacious films ever made – in its grandiose vision, and in the cozy English way it’s expressed.” Continue reading Budding Writer, 1980: ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
Reading Time: 2 minutes After weeks of worrying and fretting over whether I was a walking heart attack, this was good news. But whoever heard of an extra rib? Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Taking a ribbing
Reading Time: 3 minutes In which our hero enlists the assistance of Google’s Bard AI to explain the meaning and history of an old saying he never quite got. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1980: Of cats and kings