Train in Brackenridge Park
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Pecan Season in San Antonio
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Students, Denver and the Fifth Estate
I’m in Denver today with a group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas students who are kind enough to call me their teacher. Fellow-learner is more like it. Once again, we’re experimenting with the future of journalism — using the latest tools in different ways to help people get news and better connect with information,…
The offline mind
incurious \(ˌ)in-ˈkyu̇r-ē-əs\ lacking a normal or usual curiosity : uninterested <a blank incurious stare> synonyms: see indifferent – Merriam-Webster I am not at all relieved that John McCain, an acknowledged computer illiterate, is now “learning to get online,” without help. Here’s what he told the New York Times: Q: But do you go on line…
Gazpacho, cool soup for a hot day
We’d been married less than 10 years when we bought this old house on Mahncke Park, but our cookbook collection was already big enough to demand its own built-in bookcase in the kitchen. Each of the books has a story, which kind of explains why this librarian’s daughter thought it made sense to house Like…
See no AP, speak no AP, link no AP
I kept telling myself I was way too busy to compose a long, thoughtful piece about AP’s supremely boneheaded, wrongheaded, counterproductive and just plain stupid move to threaten to sue bloggers who quote and link to AP stories but don’t pay AP. But I am never, ever too busy to vote. So please count my…
Sex, texting, secrets and media lapdogs
I’m shocked (shocked, I tell ya!) at the high percentage of prudes and fraidy cat nannies in the Nevada press corps. It’s Nevada, for crying out loud, home to Reno, divorce capitol of the world in the north, Vegas Sin City in the south, and legal brothels in between. It’s a place where even the…
Sad face TwitterSync no workie
When my friend Chris O’Brien messaged me yesterday asking how I link my Twitter updates to my Facebook status, I had to haul myself out of denial and figure out what went wrong. For months I had been speeding along in the fast lane with my FB and Tweets all linked together for one-stop updating.…
Grieving for the turtles and their keepers
When my brother was about five years old, I gave him a carved onyx turtle for his birthday. I still have a snapshot of his ear-to-ear grin as he clutched his palm-sized prize. He was so innocently oblivious of the war then raging across the American fabric and the death toll in Vietnam. Turtles became…
Raising hell and having fun
So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. –Molly Ivins I am one lucky journo. So many times in the past 30 years I paused, looked up to the heavens, and thanked the stars that someone was actually paying me…