I grew up on woah … woah … WOAH! Continue reading Leveling Up

I recently had the privilege of driving in pitch dark between Jasper and Banff, Alberta, right in the middle of a dark sky preserve. Continue reading When Eclipses Are Good

I have long been told that it is important to have vision for one’s future but that it is a lot more important who, rather than what, one becomes. Continue reading How Mentorship Helps Prevent Creativity from Going Extinct

One of Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s definitions of the word “impeach” is: to cast doubt on especially : to challenge the credibility or validity of I wonder whether it may be important at this moment to be applying constructive criticism to at least some processes, and not just people. Continue reading Journalism Funding: A More Unified Theory

How transactions based on excess brand equity yield diminishing returns by undermining the cultivation of individual creativity & what we may do. Continue reading Paper Parks, Security Theater, and a Proxy Paradox

Several years ago, in broadly considering what might be my next career move, I felt very drawn home, or at least to the city that had for so very long felt like home to me. Continue reading On Location

When it looks like a mountain but feels like a cliff A boss, a boyfriend, a mentor, offers great success, the status quo your very life Only if!  When the arrow in your path looks to have been released before you were born, and, incoming, feels more like a rocket, Rock it then Because maybe you are the one moving. Continue reading Movement (Poem)

Jordan, When, over just a short period I interviewed in New York for the job I had long been working toward at CNN, you proposed and I accepted, I accepted the job, and you alerted me that your boss at our company wanted to make me a counter-offer to stay in Atlanta and join your team without very much discussion, I felt uneasy. Continue reading #MeToo Letter

Our government was designed, in part, based on the geometrical principle that, in two-dimensional space, a triangle is perhaps the strongest conceivable shape. But what happens when a formidable force is exerted on a triangular system, like our executive-legislative-judicial setup, from outside its two-dimensional plane? Continue reading Does Three-Dimensional Thinking Illustrate a Fifth Estate Rooted In Thanksgiving?

It’s been said that one should always ignore everything a person says and only pay attention to what they do. While this is obviously an overstatement, words are the currency for an economy of action. But what happens when a currency and what it represents become unlinked? Continue reading Website Published (Excerpt)