May 2013
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Do you see the stories around you? -
Do you ever wonder about those you walk past every day? I’m fascinated by people. I’m intrigued by the possibilities in their individual stories. When I get on the train in Blue Island, Illinois, I’m inundated with story, and I listen hard for the details. It helps me understand people I might otherwise judge based on irrelevant things. There is a guy on my train, one of the only other white...
May 10th
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Losing a teacher -
I got a text message from my friend Ted around lunch time today. It said that a teacher at Independence Junior High had passed away. It didn’t really register right away. Then he typed the name in: Maureen Oleskiewicz. I wrote back that I thought she might be one of Carson’s teachers. Ted told me she had choked on something at a Cub’s game on the weekend and that she had been...
May 8th
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ListenA story about the things we do to please others,...
May 5th
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Running to Stand Still -
I ran today. I’m a warm-weather runner. I hate running. But society make me feel like I have to run. I used to run for pleasure, back when I was in my late 20s, and I was at the University of Oregon doing wind sprints in the gym on rainy days and jogging around the perimeter of Hayward Field when it just drizzled. I ran two marathons with my wife. We ran the Portland Marathon in...
May 4th
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April 2013
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Worldview: Viral Video: The Ballerina Traffic Cops... →
wbezworldview: The disturbingly sexy traffic cops of Pyongyang (not my term) are making headlines, or, viral video views, again, after a recent editorial by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The Google magnate traveled to North Korea recently, and he briefly mentions the sirens of the streets of Pyongyang.
Apr 24th
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The complex world of the bully and the bullied -
The only time I ever dreamed of being on the radio was when I was going through my “Northern Exposure” phase, and I thought that of all the jobs I’d like to do in a small town, radio host seemed the most logical. But that was until I decided to be a newspaper reporter, because radio and television reporters get all their news from newspapers, right? So it’s still strange to me to be on the...
Apr 24th
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Is there a better way to handle citizen...
Media organizations are doing some soul searching this week. Even Reddit issued an apology, of sorts, for the way in which the social news forum offered a platform for witch hunters in the aftermath of the Boston bombings. CNN, still is reeling from the Supreme Court health care debacle last year, took another hit on the chin when its pundits and talking heads filled the screen with...
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I still don't understand grace, but do I have to?
I don’t sleep in much these days. My son was supposed to go to a track meet at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday, so I rolled over in bed around 7:45 a.m. and grabbed my iPhone to see what I had missed out on in the last 8 hours. On Facebook, I came across something I hadn’t seen in a while, a Brennan Manning quote: “How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!” ...
Apr 14th
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Worldview: World Leaders Take to Social Media →
wbezworldview: The number of world leaders on social media has increased from 33 percent in 2010 to 75 percent in 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama claims just about 25 million more followers on the social platform Twitter than the next closest world leader, but with some using social media to… I’ll be on #WorldView just before 12:30 p.m. central talking world leaders in social...
Apr 12th
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March 2013
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Bean there: Spring-breaking with the in-laws
My wife’s parents have visited us every spring break for the last three years. They’ve cruised up to Alaska to see us, literally cruising in a big ship. They’ve flown across country, and they’ve driven thousands and thousands of miles to visit us and to help us move. I’m forever indebted to them for their kindness and their willingness to help. But those are the...
Mar 24th
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Anonymous asked: Do you mind that I included your blog on my list of "Select Chicago Bloggers" on Celia: Her City? Hope not--it makes a nice addition to the others I've found.
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Worldview: Our fascination with risk is a... →
wbezworldview: People are always looking for formulas to make viral videos. Their need to make them viral is driven by financial gain and ego, among other things. And there is no formula, as proven by the wide-ranging themes of viral videos in the Internet, everything from “Charlie bit my finger,” to “Kony…
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The Iditarod on Storify - We should see a new...
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