My Year of Turning 50

Noticed while on iTunes the other night that Apple has gathering songs by year in its “iTunes Essentials” category. It’s a great way to find songs by year, and buy them to use in your tribute for someone turning 50 years old. What’s almost as much fun are the year-by-year facts iTunes includes, both about [...]

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It’s been a busy week at work, with some changes, some people making a decision to leave, others facing some uncertainty. There are many newspapers going through similar changes to mine — figuring out how to better serve a world gone digital with smaller staffs and less revenue, so our changes are not so surprising.
I’ve [...]

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Update at 8:50 p.m: Back with no broken bones but a few sore limbs.
ABC and I are going roller skating tonight — a passion she developed at a friend’s 7th-birthday party at the rink this past weekend. But when I was reading Al’s Morning Meeting, a journalism tip sheet from the Poynter Institute today, it [...]

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I remember when I first heard of Don Imus — it was when he came to WNBC radio in New York City when I was a kid (maybe 13, around 1970-71). Everyone listened to AM radio, and always WABC, home of Cousin Brucie, who voice was my introduction to music. (A few cool kids around [...]

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Looking for new sneakers yesterday, and I was transported back to the 1960s. I tried on a pair of black Converse high-tops, the kind I spent a large part of my youth in. Back then, in New York City where I grew up, they were not a fashion statement. They were just a sneaker. The [...]

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