Wilma Jean Blankenbaker
Just under 18 years ago I buried my mom, one of the two strongest women in my family. Today I will bury the other, my grandmother.
Hitting the Mark
46 years after the Boer war, Prime Minister Winston Churchill stared down Nazis. In desperate need of help he reached for his pen. Late one evening by candlelight, Churchill wrote a letter to the new President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Inside the workspace and routine of Jobs, Twain, Vonnegut, and me
I love seeing people’s workspace. I think it reveals a lot about them and has enamored me ever since I saw this photo of Steve … Read More
My earliest memory
There are a series of three or four photo albums at my dad’s house in Salem. There are not as many photos in those albums … Read More
Facebook is to community like porn is to sex
Ask a college graduate with a $400/mo. car payment, a government-mandated health insurance bill, hefty rents despite splitting it three ways and a car payment of $250 a month because your city is huge and you can’t plunk down $5,000 for a used car all at once to join Rotary, Kiwanis, an industry association, or go bowling for $3,000 a year and see how far that goes.