Category: Reflections
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Dvorak Frustration
I absolutely underestimated my level of frustration from not being able to get my ideas out of my head.
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When Are You No Longer Mexican? 🇲🇽
Awhile ago, Vanessa and I attended a panel at SXSWi, “What Would Cesar Chavez Tweet?”, that examined the status of Hispanic engagement via social media, particularly while being leveraged for political/social movements. A corollary issue is when is someone no longer “Hispanic enough” to be part of the target demographic? This hits home for me, as…
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Working Remotely on a Remote Farm
Our first step was to try and find a house or apartment in the city. It was hard to find something affordable and after a long search we eventually stumbled upon a cute farm in the southern part of Sweden. The farm originated from the late 1800s and most other people considered this place as extremely remote, which…
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20 Kids Wasn’t Enough
In the last few years, I keep it light around here. Mostly I write about blogging, WordPress, silly stuff about my kids. The heavy stuff is usually something about fatherhood and losing my own dad before I was a teenager. I haven’t written about politics since early college, as far as I can remember. And…
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Why blogging still matters from The Boston Globe
Anyone could talk, even though not everyone was as skilled a rhetorician (or even grammarian) as the professionals populating the pages of professional newspapers. The imperfections of our posts, we hoped, would help legitimize a more human, less controlled form of public speech. But, we thought, the most important challenge blogging posed was to the…
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Tiny Band, Big Heart – Texas Monthly
Twenty-five strong after a bass drummer got his grades up and earned eligibility, the Rotan Yellowhammers got their first look inside San Antonio’s Alamodome, where they would perform the next day in the state marching competition. The 72,000 seats in the stadium were a far cry from Rotan’s 400-capacity football field. Source: Tiny Band, Big…