Sunday, August 4, 2024

As American as Baseball, At Last

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It was the end of the last game of the entire season. The Alpine Cowboys and the Tucson Saguaros were tied four to four at the bottom of the...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

The secret, the sword and the line in the sand of a seven year old

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Chicken soup—as we all know, is the remedy for all that ails. Colds, flu, it even helps with COVID-- and, it turns out chicken soup is also ...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

When our worlds get too small there’s a bigger one we can turn to.

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I learned last night from a guest, a young mom with her toddler and husband, staying at our river cabin, that the Medina river’s flow in fro...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Learn About Technology by Not Using It?

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My student got up from her desk and went to stand at the front of the class. She was a young mother of a toddler she said. Her report would ...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

It’s About Time

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  Dissatisfaction and unease had crept into my day-to-day. Everything else being equal, I could only guess the culprit was my online time ha...
Monday, June 12, 2023

My hours on and off media and why it matters

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Numbers too large for me to calculate.   Like so many American children of the 1960’s and 70’s, I practically lived sitting cross-legged on...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Are You New To Media Literacy?

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Are You New To Media Literacy? Ugh. Like many new things, media literacy may be hard at first. It was for me. I had to get used to a new w...