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About This Site
This site is a little rough around the edges. I like that. I want it rough, a bit unpolished, because it accurately reflects the work I do and how I write. As a beat, and later, investigative reporter, I spent a lot of time “on the...
Lecture At SCAD Possible
I’ve been asked by an esteemed professor in the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Industrial Design Program to prepare a lecture and workshop on how understanding the mindset of a journalist can make students better...
Living Without Words
Two years ago my Mom suffered a catastrophic stroke, resulting in the communication disorders aphasia and apraxia. Thankfully she is still alive and as wonderful as ever. But it’s like she is trapped inside her body, or she’s in a...
About This Site
This site is a little rough around the edges. I like that.
I want it rough, a bit unpolished, because it accurately reflects the work I do and how I write.
My Lives 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0
I’ve led three very interesting and fulfilling professional lives.
Life 1.0, as I like to call it, came as a beat reporter and investigative journalist for 15-plus years, the final 10 at The Dallas Times Herald. But then something unexpected happened.
Living Without Words
Two years ago my Mom suffered a catastrophic stroke, resulting in the communication disorders aphasia and apraxia. Thankfully she is still alive and as wonderful as ever. But it’s like she is trapped inside her body, or she’s in a coma, or she’s under water drowning, able to hear us but unable to get out of her head what she wants to say.
Reggie Jackson once told me to f*** off Learn More