My Decade of Turning 50

My mother used to say that you were lucky to have one good friend. Well, drawn in by my former boss and seismic changes in journalism, I joined Facebook today. Somehow I now have five friends..wait, six! Josh just accepted me as a friend. Wow, the joy of excess. What began as a social networking [...]

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Our office at Kennedy Space CenterOriginally uploaded by John Cutter. This is a photo of our office at the press area of the Kennedy Space Center. I’ll be there in couple of hours to help cover the space shuttle launch of Endeavour at 6:36 p.m. We’ll be blogging, sending our Twitter alerts and trying some [...]

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A little self-promotion for my day job, as senior editor for online news for OrlandoSentinel.com — we ran an article this weekend about GrowingBolder.com, a soon-to-launch social networking web site for baby boomers. The plans are for it to start in the Central Florida market, but go nationwide. Social networking is a big thing on [...]

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OK, I lied…I’m not doing laundry, but I am thinking randomly…we lost power tonight — typical Florida thunderstorm — but it made me think of the New York City blackout of 1977, which was 30 years ago this month. I was there for it, and the one in 1965, which was more fun for me [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I am playing around with Twitter. One of my early favs to follow is comedian Steven Wright’s posts. Yesterday he had one that easily could be “adapted” for a turning 50 joke: “My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn’t get a birthmark until he was eight years [...]

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I trying out Twitter, so you can see in the box on the right rail what I’m doing and thinking. You can scroll back to past items using the little arrows at bottom of the box, or if you follow this link you can see them all and join my network. It’s another way to [...]

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Found this blog post today, which includes a piece Julia Campbell wrote about her experiences with the Peace Corps in the Philippines. In it, Julia wrote: “I joined the US Peace Corps, the American government’s all-volunteer service corps, because I wanted to help people. I’m just one of 7,749 volunteers in 73 countries around the [...]

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11Originally uploaded by maryowen. A friend of Julia Campbell’s from her time in the Philippines has some wonderful photos of Julia on flickr, including this one. You can find the rest of them here. Notice the smile, which is how we all remember Julia. Update on Monday (4-23-2007): Found a link to some of Julia’s [...]

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UPDATE: Julia’s sister is quoted in this article late today, saying family is not outraged by the killing and plans to celebrate Julia’s life. Just checked around this morning for any updates in Julia Campbell’s murder. Some sites are saying police in the Philippines have a suspect identified but not in custody, which sounds a [...]

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Some news this morning on Julia Campbell, the friend I mentioned in an earlier post who was killed while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. AP this morning says: Police are looking for a man who may have been involved in the death of a U.S.Peace Corps volunteer in a mountainous tourist [...]

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