This post is made possible by support from the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. All opinions are my own. Vinyl records, which were a big part of my childhood, are “in” again (go figure). The experience of listening to music on a record player was so different from our digital listening routines these days. […]
Five Minute Friday: PLACE
Five Minute Friday: PLACE Give the prompt of “place,” and I’m going to write about New York City. I have always said (and believed) that I could be happy anywhere geographically. I still consider that the truth, but no locality makes my heart sing like NYC does. I pondered that during my last visit (in […]
How 7 SmartBrief stories inspired me to do more
I read many news articles every day due to my work. I can either let them influence me to do things more often or persuade me to cut down. Looking over the most thought-provoking SmartBrief stories I encountered in February, I’m going for “more often” rather than “cutting down.” I can: Be open to disposing […]
Five Minute Friday: MORE
Five Minute Friday: MORE We had a tiny earthquake here in North Florida Wednesday. If I hadn’t heard about it, I certainly wouldn’t have felt it. When I went to look into the tiny earthquake a bit more, I found more data than I could ever possibly need to know: its intensity, activity by ZIP […]
Safety Is the Deepest Gift of All
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper got two standing ovations for their performance of “Shallow” at the Academy Awards. One immediately followed the performance, and another occurred as they returned to their seats. Those standing ovations were well-deserved. The performance was momentous. It was the intimate, compelling nature of the performance that led some people to […]
Five Minute Friday: SEARCH
Five Minute Friday: SEARCH One of the my first tasks when I began freelancing at SmartBrief involved searching for stories for various topics. Some subjects required more creativity than others to find things that other people would be likely to want to read. My responsibilities now are different from what they were then, and searching for […]