Archive for February, 2011
StoryCorps and the lives of ordinary people
Recently I’ve taken a keen interest in oral histories, and in the technical and artistic feats behind creating audio stories and making them powerful and relevant. I am overwhelmed by how natural the journalists on NPR and its member stations make it seem. There is a lot of work, a lot of practice–and a lot [...]
February 28th, 2011That’s the way this wheel keeps working out.
On this lovely day, February 19, 2011, I was driving home from Barnes & Noble thinking of all the things that make my life so good, right now. There are many, including the amazing people I have surrounding me. But this list does not include people–they are the biggest given. I am not a big-crowd, [...]
February 19th, 2011A city, not a blank slate. More like “an empty and brightly lit stage with lots of directors, scripts, auditions, designers, audiences, and reviewers.”
I haven’t written recently, but it has not been for lack of compelling ideas and discussion in my classes and reading. It has been in fact because of too much of it, alongside a new, second job that I have taken on, and the regularly hefty amount of school work. But I just finished another book for class, that [...]
February 19th, 2011“History is a giant stone that lies on top of us”
What can films like Apocalypse Now tell us about our past? And if it’s all we’re getting, how can we think intently about where the Vietnam war fits in our historic and present day lives? Americans don’t tend to see the past in their everyday lives. If they do, it might be because of a [...]
February 1st, 2011