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  • Funny Mess-Ups: ‘Pitons,’ ‘The Font Line,’ Davis Doubled

    We all make writing and other content mistakes, and sometimes funnily so. Certainly more fun, though, is catching others’ mistakes. Below is my running list of screenshots and photos of errors I catch — created

  • 5 Great Grateful Dead Covers

    Last year, I posted 10 incredible live recordings for the Grammys. This year, ahead of the music awards, which are scheduled for Sunday, I thought it would be fun to do another music-focused post. The

  • 10 Incredible Live Recordings: ‘The Weight,’ ‘Deal,’ ‘All Apologies’

    I know I’ve just missed the Grammy Awards, but I’m still going to use them as an opportunity to do a personal listicle: 10 of my favorite live recordings. Included are my top group, what

  • In Photos: Crazier COVID Times

    While going through my older iPhone photos, I realized quite a few were of our strange surroundings and circumstances from the strictest COVID times during 2020. May they not return. Bare shelves at a Publix

From support role, vet saw joys and horrors of World War II

— Bob Overton and three other members of the 217th Military Police Company settle down for the night in a hotel lounge just over the German border. Behind them: the 10-months-long trail of bloodshed that expelled Nazi power from France and the Low Countries. Suddenly, two [...]

July 9, 2015 History, Journalism/Communications

Best Everglades boat tour? The one where dolphins chase you

— The highlight of my family trip to the Everglades and Florida Keys in May had to be the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins chasing our boat in the waters around the Ten Thousand Islands. Gators, crocs and birds certainly are cool, [...]

July 7, 2015 Nature & Wildlife, Travel & Culture

Adobe Media Encoder ‘Not Currently Encoding’: How to fix Adobe Media Encoder

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June 30, 2015 Journalism/Communications, Tech

10 Essential Steps for Applying to Grad School

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June 22, 2015 Reflections

Nazi death train at Farsleben: ‘They were next to skeletons’ (WWII oral history)

Frank Towers, a 97-year-old World War II veteran and one of the main subjects in my “Christmas at War” story from last year, witnessed two major but largely untold events from the Eastern Front. The first was U.S. air forces [...]

June 7, 2015 History, Journalism/Communications

New species added: Galapagos brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis urinator)

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May 24, 2015 Nature & Wildlife, Photo, Travel & Culture