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A News Story’s Journey Through Traditional And Social Media
In March 2012 I sent this press release to KPHO-Phoenix news journalist Lindsey Reiser and other news stations. That led to this KPHO news story. That news story led to these news stories. Then, a few...
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Who’s A Hero?
What is a hero? Is it someone who chooses to do the right thing, or is it something more? In August 2012, Brian Dillon, a construction worker who was working in New York City near the Empire State...
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A Cottonwood Cemetery: Segregated Graves?
Here at a Cottonwood, Ariz. graveyard there are two noticeably different parts: the predominantly Latino part and the predominantly “vanilla” part. The predominantly “vanilla” part is more grassy and...
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Moral Lessons From Liberty Mutual
The insurance company Liberty Mutual made a commercial called “Doing The Right Thing.” In the commercial, various people are shown doing a kind act toward someone else. The sub-theme given to the...
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Smiled From The Streets I Held – Poem
Past the drug across a corner next to a woman, near the face, left of right surely wrong. I smiled from the only place possible at that time, close to nothing on the street in the way. But “even in...
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How I Incidentally Copied Pablo Picasso
Years ago, during my quest to make as many things out of upcycled bicycle parts as I could imagine, I made “the steerhead,” which is built out of road handlebars, brake levers, a stem and a seat....
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Five Reasons To Play Cooperative Chess
DISCLAIMER: This post is not meant to portray competitive chess players as horrible monsters, or to say that anyone who plays competitive chess is doomed to become a sociopath. Rather, I want to show...
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Poem – Natural Human Disaster Recovery
Natural Human Disaster Recovery I put my line on the land when my hand won’t do. When at times the land lives cleaner than the palm or my sprawl’s finger — purple, white and red. Put my line on the...
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Photo of Piece (Cooperative Chess) Board
This is my personal board and the first Piece board I made. The center circle is where the kings and queens of each side “meet.” And the outer circles don’t have a practical purpose, but they symbolize...
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Cause Versus Influence, and Violent Games
The reasonable and informed won’t go as far as saying that playing violent video games causes real-world violence. Now the discussion is more about whether playing violent games influences a person...
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I Played Cooperative Chess With The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is known more for outdoor adventure than it is for chess play, and that’s part of what inspired me to bring the game Piece (cooperative chess) to “the big hole in the ground up north,”...
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Prune June — A Month Of Choice
I’m three days into Prune June — the month during which I choose to either “prune” an activity out of my life for the entire month to see how I feel at month’s end, or to eat or drink prunes or prune...
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“Would-Be Non-Fiction Authors Must Wear Platform Shoes On Twitter”
Ideas and excellent writing aren’t enough when you pitch a non-fiction book proposal to literary agents. That’s because beyond everything else that’s expected from what is generally referred to as a...
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Cooperative Chess At “Academy,” Southern Oregon University
In June 2013, I taught cooperative chess (Piece) to two groups of kids — one group of 5th and 6th graders and the other of 7th and 8th graders — for an hour a day, for five days, at the ACADEMY program...
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Waldport, Oregon — 10 Years Later
If I remember right, it was the summer of 2003 when the Greyhound bus dropped me in Waldport, Oregon at about 2:30 a.m. And last week, in July 2013, I found myself back in Waldport — and it felt so...
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New Etsy Shop — Grovestreams
You’ll see a link to Etsy on this blog’s home page, which will take you to my resurrected effort to sell things made out of bicycle parts on Etsy. Previously, I was mostly selling necklaces and...
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The Credit Union Indifference
Credit unions want you to think that they’re the “the good ones” in the banking world, particularly when contrasted with the bigger banks that, obviously, have well fit the role of “the bad ones” in...
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Consumer Tips For Dealing With Fair-Weather Service Providers
Whether it’s your bank, mobile phone service provider, utility company or whatever other institution you do business with, they all seem to want to be your Best Friend Forever — your BFF. Even without...
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Follow-Up: Consumer Tips For Dealing With Fair-Weather Service Providers
My September 2013 post “Consumer Tips For Dealing With Fair-Weather Service Providers” dealt with the drama of losing income and facing the challenge of paying — or not being able to pay — certain...
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How To Get A Corporate Executive’s Email Address
Sometimes, dealing with a company’s customer service team will get you nowhere. Customer service representatives can only work with you according to guidelines pre-set by management. So if you have a...
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