Goodie, Goodie!

January and February are the enemy that ultimately follows the holidays. The good followed by the bad and the ugly.

Profit and Loss

Being asked what you could do less of is an invitation to a rant. It's the sort of thing made for a slow news cycle when nothing else is there to fill the airwaves, expend newsprint on, or appear in your spam folder. It's the sort of stuff that, on the coast, the old maiden …

Tabloid

Daily writing promptWhat could you do less of?View all responses For many years, I worked as an anthropologist. But somewhere in the middle of those years, I took a detour into being a journalist. My paper was a neighborhood tabloid monthly. The paper's revenue came from grant money from the city, subscriptions, and ad revenue. Its …