In the fall of 2007, I was in Washington for the annual Society of Professional Journalists conference, an organization with student chapters at journalism schools across the country. I went alone, because no one else from my chapter could make the trip, but it was probably better that way. The seminars and workshops at the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Writing / Reading’
February 16, 2010
A New Look
For the past couple of days I’ve been wrestling with the idea of changing the layout of this site. I liked the other one fine, and frankly I hate the idea of changing a look that was becoming recognizable, but the squished 3-column format didn’t allow for pictures that weren’t oriented horizontally, unless I linked [...]
January 17, 2010
Born to Run
I started reading this book a few days ago, after months of telling myself “You should really read that book.” I guess it just took seeing it in a local bookstore when I had some dispensable cash in my pocket. While I’m quite the fan of armchair adventure reading, this books seems to inspire me [...]
December 26, 2009
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
For some time now, I’ve been a fan of Jon Krakauer and his adventure writing. In Into the Wild, he chronicled the mishaps of Christopher McCandless and his fatal foray into the Alaskan wilderness. (That book received more acclaim after Sean Penn made it the subject of his 2007 film of the same title.) In [...]
