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Category: media

  • Built to Last

    After I got married, I worked briefly at company that sold custom wood ceilings. I remember one time there were two orders for similar looking products. One was a walnut ceiling, and the other was a poplar ceiling stained to look like walnut.  The first client was an Ivy League school. I think it was…

  • Two Tales of Televisions

    Here’s two stories about televisions. Story One: There were large periods of time we did not have a television during my childhood. We would have a TV for a while, but then we’d watch too much or something too scary or too racy. My Mom would put it out by the trash cans for the…

  • Angry Young Men

    I keep hearing voices in the media wondering about the motive of the attempted assassin. I am not sure what his particular ideas were, but it seems to fit pattern of public violence. Shooters are often angry young men. There have been several who went through high school, outside of the group, seeming inconsequential to…

  • Fifteen Minutes

    Let me tell you about the time I was a little bit famous. When I graduated with my shiny journalism degree in the late nineties, the world was in the middle of a massive transition from paper to electronic mass communication. For local papers, it meant people no longer paid for news that they could…

  • Tough Times & Choices

    The movie that I ended up seeing back-to-back with Oppenheimer, was not the Barbie movie, but the 1975 film The Hiding Place. If you aren’t familiar, the story is about a Dutch watchmaker and her family that hide Jews during the German occupation. (There are some free streaming services that have it.) Both films are…

  • Life in Plastic

    As a mother of two girls, I am well acquainted with Barbie dolls. We have a whole bin of them and briefly we had the dream house that I both got and gave away for free. We have a lonely Ken doll who spends his days shirtless and face down in a corner. There’s a…

  • 7 Ways to be More Digitally Literate

    Being a member of society means being responsible about your social media presence.