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Posted on October 18, 2019November 3, 2019

HighEdWeb makes me cry.

I leave HighEdWeb in tears. Every year. I worked in broadcast journalism for eleven years before joining higher education in 2014. News is a challenging field for self-identifying optimists like…

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Posted on August 27, 2015October 20, 2019

A shooting in Virginia

The murder of Alison Parker and Adam Ward is disturbing. All violent crimes are—or should be. But what happened in Virginia was different. It was perverse.

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Posted on January 7, 2015June 4, 2016

Writing about reading about writing

I’ve become a bit obsessed with writing. Not writing itself, but the mechanics of it. About what makes a sentence pop. About telling engaging stories. And about funny little things…

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Posted on November 27, 2014June 4, 2016

On signing off

The past year has been insane. I left television exactly a year ago, ending a decade-long career of news producing. There would be no more late nights, no more breaking…

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Posted on October 30, 2013June 4, 2016

Post Traumatic Sox Disorder

Frayed nerves. Sleepless nights. An impending sense of doom. I’m suffering all the symptoms of a Red Sox World Series appearance. I should be happy my beloved Sox are a…

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Posted on September 7, 2013June 4, 2016

Taking risks to be happy

“Okay,” I said. “Let’s go for it.” Most people don’t make major life decisions based on wisdom hatched from a fortune cookie, but at that moment, Jenn and I couldn’t…

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Posted on August 10, 2013June 4, 2016

So. This is my blog.

I always believed starting a blog would be scary. I toyed with the idea for years but somehow convinced myself the time wasn’t right. Some days I believed I was…

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