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The great writers do it alone. It’s exhilarating. It’s frustrating. It’s fun. It’s maddening. Writing demands the best of our creativity. It makes us push ourselves to express ideas and emotions. Sometimes it’s things we can’t say out loud, but can pour onto the page. We can re-write it until we get it just right. Find the

Guns. We love them. We hate them. We can’t live without them. We can’t live with them. They dominate our lives. Stories about their use and misuse dominate the news on many days. They are at the core of our political discourse about crime, terrorism, race, constitutional rights, national security, personal security, immigration. It seems the

Words are a journalist’s most important tool. For broadcast journalists, I would argue they are more important than the video we use to tell our stories. It’s how and what we say about the pictures and the people we interview that has the greatest impact on the viewer. It’s because that’s how we normally interact

My wife noticed some weeks ago that there didn’t seem to be anyone living in our neighbor’s house. The only lights that came on appeared to be on a timer. There was no sign of anyone leaving for work in the morning, and no cars in the driveway. We wondered if everything was alright. Another

The difference between men and woman is never more dramatic than the weeks leading up to Christmas. Once Thanksgiving is over, women start the process of planning and preparing for the biggest day of the year. It’s their Super Bowl. This requires a strategic and multi-pronged approach. It can take on the characteristics of a complex

The fear and hate being spewed over us by Donald Trump, the man the majority of those Republicans polled want to see become the next president, can be heard in the echoes of history. For a country founded by people fleeing religious persecution and an oppressive British king, some of us want to build a wall to

Just about all of us are walking around with a camera on our smart phones. There are millions of pictures being snapped everyday, probably more than ever before in history. They can be posted instantly to be seen around the world in seconds. Photography has always been a hobby of mine. In some ways, I find

Reporting is about the search for the truth. What is the truth? How does it affect the viewers or readers? The toughest truths to uncover are the ones people don’t want you to know. So reporters sometimes have to get through the cover up before they can get to the truth. The newly released movie

The rhetoric is hot when the times call for cooler heads in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Men who want to be president like Donald Trump saying we should consider closing mosques. Rand Paul asking people to sign petitions to keep Syrian refugees out of the country. Ted Cruz telling college students it’s “absolute lunacy” to