Monthly Archives: September 2011

Facing Mortality and Learning About Life

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Administrator

You learn to appreciate your life, as fleeting as it may be, for those precious moments of human contact. That has been particularly poignant in this year of my life —2011— with the death of my father in the spring … Continue reading →

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Info, Knowledge and Attention Spans

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Administrator

Has anybody seen my attention span? I never had much of it, but what I had is slipping away. I could blame it on the aging process, but I look around and it seems to be happening to everyone, no … Continue reading →

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Can Facebook Journalism and Newspapers Coexist?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Administrator

Community journalism appears to be in the hands of the masses, so to speak, and some of it is good. It seems I got out of the newspaper business at the right time. The recent historic flood in my part … Continue reading →

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Laboring over Einstein in a Deadline World

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Administrator

I never had much of attention span, but I was great at focusing over a span of several hours when I really had to. This served me well in college in cramming for tests. Despite all the advice to the … Continue reading →

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