NORFOLK, Va. – The author and educator Sheri Reynolds sat down with me last month to discuss her most recent book The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb [Turner Publishing, 2012], a novel that changed over the course of a few drafts from a third-person narrative to a first-person story that takes the form of a devotional. The […]
May 12, 2013
WASHINGTON – Got to play with my wife’s Nikon – and her new 200 zoom – at the National Museum of Natural History on Saturday. Here’s my favorite non-family image from the trip. At least, I don’t think we’re related. And a couple others from the National Zoo. Love that place. The Smithsonian, those kids do a nice […]
May 7, 2013
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Another batch of emulations of entries in The Devil’s Dictionary. This was my main writing exercise last night, when I had a block of time to do a few of them. I like this exercise a lot. It makes me think about what words mean, what they mean in different contexts, and what they don’t […]
May 3, 2013
NORFOLK, Va. – Author and journalist Mike D’Orso was the subject of the first craft talk I wrote for this blog a couple years ago, when we discussed the great story “The Project and the Park.” It captures the housing project near Harbor Park as that sports venue opened, and it is only one of 45 […]
April 17, 2013
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Here are some of the published corrections or adjustments earned by media outlets covering the terrible bombings Monday at the Boston Marathon. This mostly focuses on the reporting about whether or not somebody was in custody. Sort of a big fact to get wrong. Some made the flub. Many reposted it. Who broke the […]
June 16, 2013
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