Happy Shiny People!

Who are your current most favorite people? Optimists! Or maybe just not people who are negative about…well, about everything. (I won’t say anymore about that right now, lest I be negative.) Speaking of optimists, I recently joined the Chamber of Commerce (as StoryZ, our new theatre/performance group—and I look forward to a time when IContinue reading “Happy Shiny People!”

If It Bleeds, It Leads

Lately I’ve been reflecting on the old news rule: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Any story, no matter how interest-worthy, always takes a backseat to another item containing [more] death, carnage, and blood. For a long time, news of the Ukraine war dominated the news. Then we’d see nothing about it when a mass shootingContinue reading “If It Bleeds, It Leads”

This is a Test…

Create an emergency preparedness plan. I’ve had a couple brushes with emergency plans in the past, some of which I’ve documented on my podcast, Audio Chimera. When exploring the building where Thom McAn was housed, my manager and I followed the pneumatic tube system up and down, and discovered the bomb shelter materials stored inContinue reading “This is a Test…”

My Wayward Answer

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? I feel the need to go all Kobayashi Maru* on this question. You can read my answer while you share this earworm with me, courtesy of my post title. The prompt seems to suggest an object of some sort. But there’s noContinue reading “My Wayward Answer”