Yesterday ProPublica, the independently funded investigative reporting organization featured my SF magazine story on its front page as the editor’s pick of the day.
Sammy Thompson
He found a family, and finally started to make a home in a place where others rarely tarried.
Jonathan Guerrero
"God just put too many things on this kid."
Katie Simianer
"I want to go. I want to travel. I have to hurry. I have to live my life while I can."
Tony Zaleta
A spirit walking, trying to find his place in the world.
Nikki Pack
Fast talking, easy to get laughing, a young woman who always wanted to be free.
Melissa Martinez
"She was fearless. She would try anything."
Justin Lutz
"There was something about Justin. He would just draw you in."
Jeff Geerts
Why don’t we finish the projects we love? What internal and external obstacles rise up to prevent us from fulfilling our dreams? In the book I wrote with Cary Tennis, which will be published by Penguin/Tarcher in January 2017, we offer a new way of looking at creative blocks and a tested and tried way of finishing your work
Kevin Ashton’s book on innovation and creativity “How To Fly A Horse” addresses similar themes and ideas to those Cary Tennis and I do in our work on completing your creative projects in “Finishing School: That Happy Ending To The Writing Project You Just Can’t Seem To Get Done.”
Finishing School: The Happy Ending To That Writing Project You Just Can’t Seem To Get Done, went out to publishers for sale today. My writing partner Cary Tennis, who came up with the idea for the school, is very pleased, and so am I! His simple and easily reproducible gets results and we hope to spread it a big audience.
Union Pacific’s new train yard in Santa Teresa, New Mexico is 11.5 miles long and a mile wide. But with the deal announced in Beijing today, it might not be big enough.
As more and more Americans come down with the Affluenza virus, President Obama takes decisive action approving a bold, new research initiative at the National Institutes of Health. A satirical news story.
Was Shirley Temple a little sexpot? Was she manipulated by Hollywood to send messages only dirty old men would receive? Graham Greene thought so and was sued for libel for expressing it. Looking through her films I can see the evidence of this, but oh how I wish I could un-see.
If Lynne Cheney summed up the year for her family, what would that Christmas letter be like? My version, a humor column as Christmas letter for Al Jazeera America.
One of the tech employees who rides a company bus from San Francisco to Silicon Valley engaged me in a dialogue about the flood of tech money into San Francisco real estate. He’s a reasonable guy and I tried to answer in kind. More conversation needed!
Passing on the meme is an easy act, so easy most of us don’t pause to check if it’s true. Although I fancy myself too experienced as a journalist to fall into that trap, I did earlier this week. What it revealed about me isn’t all that flattering, but it is a call to operate differently on the web.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation offered journalists tips on keeping their sources safe, but all of them seemed flawed or too technical for the average person to use easily. What’s an investigative journalist to do?
Writing this story about Kwame Harris’ life as a closeted athlete for ESPN magazine, I learned about the intricate relationship that offensive linemen have. To succeed, they must be so attuned to each other that they can communicate without speaking, making it that much harder for a gay athlete to keep a secret from the […]
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