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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

Bob Gasche, Vet of Iwo Jima Well-Known for Military and Community Involvement, Dies at 94

Bob Gasche, a Marine corporal who served in World War II, including in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and later in the Korean War, died July 30 at age 94. He was a private in the 5th Marine Division when [...]

August 11, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Reflections

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes: 15 Pastoral Excerpts from ‘The Yearling’

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 classic “The Yearling” tells of the small Baxter family living off land and animal in rural, forested Florida, long before today’s development, comforts, or conveniences. Around them are (mostly) amiable neighbors, the elements, a country doctor, [...]

July 31, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife

‘Things Are Just Crazy Here’: 20 Revealing Excerpts from Woodward’s ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward used hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources and an abundance of documents in his research for his latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” a thorough, critical, often-embarrassing look into the lead up to [...]

July 15, 2019 Journalism/Communications

25 Offbeat Words for Your Vocabulary, Courtesy the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead composed many dozens of original songs over their 30-year career, from “The Golden Road,” the first track on their self-titled debut album in the mid-’60s, to a few in the early to mid-’90s that didn’t make it onto an album [...]

May 21, 2019 Journalism/Communications, Music & Arts, Reflections

John Steinbeck Quotes: 10 Trudging Excerpts from ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” centers on the Joads, a family of poor farmers suffering in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s who are lured to California by hopes of a better life and a handbill advertising work there. [...]

February 15, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Music & Arts

Tom Clancy Quotes: 10 Rousing Excerpts from ‘The Hunt for Red October’

Tom Clancy’s “The Hunt for Red October” tells of a group of Soviet naval officers attempting to defect to the U.S. via the Atlantic Ocean in a highly advanced nuclear-powered submarine, as the Soviet Union gives chase with the intent to [...]

October 4, 2018 History, Journalism/Communications, Music & Arts