Slice of Americana

John is taking a couple of blog days off for the Thanksgiving holidays.  His thrice weekly posts will resume on Monday, Nov. 30.  Today’s post, Slice of Americana, originally appeared on Feb 8, 2013. Happy Thanksgiving!    The news business will always be a part...

Be Thankful. Share.

As we prepare for Thanksgiving — America’s greatest holiday — we should pause, or at least slow down, and think about what this day really means.   Thanksgiving is our greatest holiday because it is celebrated by everyone, of every faith.  There is not the frenetic...

Slice of Americana

The news business will always be a part of who I am. As a former reporter, I confess that while I do not miss the grind of working for a daily newspaper, slogging through flooded rice fields in the dead of night covering a fatal airplane crash, or moving through a bar...