I walk into a room and turn on a light. I stop for a minute and I'm speechless. I'm streaming a movie on my laptop. My phone is open to a chat I'm having with a coworker and I have music playing in the background. I wonder how I explain any of this. I'm stumped.... Continue Reading →
Ch- ch- changes!
When singer David Bowie released his song Changes as a single from his album Hunky Dory 17 in 1972, the single flopped commercially, failing to chart in the UK, and peaking at number 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Recognition for the single would not come until Bowie's following album, The Rise and Fall of... Continue Reading →
Gone in the blink of an eye: The past decade
The decade started with viewers rushing home from work or wherever they had been for round-the-clock updates on the miners trapped by the Chilean mining accident. The cave-in took place on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Television cameras from around the world... Continue Reading →
New challenges
I walked into work distracted and annoyed. I had been working for my hometown newspaper for more than a year. I had a million things on my mind. I nearly knocked over one of the press workers that I passed in the hall. Another coworker held a door open for for me and I walked... Continue Reading →

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