Alas, I was a lifelong Republican, though with the rise of rabid anti-gay fundamentalism and the suspicion of those who are not white, conservative, gun-loving, climate-change-denying, Christians, I cannot fathom what my political idols, Lincoln or (yes, indeed, this it true) Reagan would think about the rise of the Republican Party’s de facto nominee Trump’s ...

I received a notice this morning from Twitter congratulating me that I reached 3,000 followers. Congratulations! Congratulations? For what? 3,000? Granted, I am flattered that this many accounts would see some value in following me on Twitter, but like...

After a few days away from the #ds106 Daily Create due to work and school, I popped back in today and was intrigued with the invitation: #tdc1484 Half empty or half full? Perhaps that is not the right question all the time, as sometimes a half is bette...

Per today’s #DailyCreate #tdc1472 related to #Western106, we are encouraged to consider the maxim: An old Western saying tells us not to approach a bull from the front, nor a horse from the rear. It also tells us not to approach a fool from either side. I think we should avoid bulls (including bull walruses) … →

Leave it to those pesky #western106 folks to demand (ok, challenge us) to write a verse of the lousy song Home on the Range. Lousy insofar as I could never relate to the song at all; a home on the range never appealed to me. In fact, it downright terrifies me, but that is for … →

I have been successful for years avoiding the open, creative, unruly, unending lifestyle that is Digital Storytelling. To be #ds106 again . . . But, no more. I was sucked into it in a most unlikely way, one that even now I do not fully understand. Focusing on a campy retelling of all that is … →