Category: Personal Experiences

  • I Installed A Floor

    I haven’t posted in a few weeks, but I have an excuse. With my free time I installed a Pergo floor in our dining room. I know a lot of folks out there will mock my accomplishment, and that’s okay. I’m not normally a DIY kind of guy. I know a lot of people are, […]

  • News consumption is hard work

    Being a news consumer in 2018 is hard work. Although to be fair, it’s always been hard work. Mistakes, bias, false narratives and lies have always been part of the news. It’s never been easy for news consumers to distinguish between what’s real and what’s not. The difference, as social and distributed media have grown […]

  • Football is my guilty pleasure, and that saddens me

    I’ve been a football fan(atic) for as long as I can remember. I grew up in western Pennsylvania, a football hotbed, so it’s only natural that some of my earliest memories are of watching football. And, in western PA, by watching football I mean either watching the Steelers, or waiting for a game to end […]

  • January 14 – One last entry into the Christmas portraits

    If you’ve been following along you know I’ve been working on multiple portraits that I gave as Christmas presents this year. And you also know that late in the game I decided to add two additional portraits into the mix. The downside of my sudden additions was that I did not have a subject for […]

  • Finding a memory

    It’s been  a few months since I posted about my professional pursuits. This weekend I wanted to get on track and say something less personal and more meaningful to a wider audience. I started this weekend wanting to say something about how Google and Facebook are screwing over local media organizations. Then my wife and I […]