Has Technology Flipped Our Expectations?

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          In 1958 veteran broadcaster Edward R. Murrow delivered his famous “wires and lights in a box” speech to members of the RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association). Television was the new technology and he was concerned about it being used solely for entertainment value rather than…

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Backpacker Magazine

Winter Camping

One of my favorite hobbies (and really I’m below novice level here) is backpacking. After reading the book Younger Next Year for Women I was inspired to do something . . . whatever was available right in my own backyard. I had always fantasized about what it would be like…

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Winter Wonderland

The Photographer in the Backyard

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I hear so many people complaining about the snow (and Lord knows, we got a lot of it and early!). It creates work, no doubt. Shovel it. Drive in it. Reschedule because it can’t be driven in, shovel it again. But I LOVE it. There is nothing like the feeling…

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Horizons: What is Over There?

Caribbean Vacation

Life is full of horizons. The quest to find out what is just.over.there….such a human trait. Horizons encourage us to look beyond the present, beyond the moment – into the future and the VAST UNKNOWN. Imagine if we could really see what was over there? Maybe that is why the…

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Sunlight through the tulip tree.

Sunlight through the tulip tree.

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The Sumac is on fire!

The Sumac is on fire!

Rusty barbed wire.

Rusty barbed wire.

Grown Attached

Grown Attached

Sunshine

Sunshine

Twisted, Rusted, Barbed

Twisted, Rusted, Barbed

An allegory waits here ...

An allegory waits here …

My Teenage Daughter is Reading

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Book Review: Paper Towns by John Green Full of metaphor and thought-provoking mystery, Paper Towns by John Green is a young adult novel that tells the story of Quentin and Margo – teens whose lives entwined when they were in grade school and together discovered the body of a man…

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