Today’s post is about unconditional friendship. I believe that everyone has a friend in their lives who you know that no matter where you are, or how much time has gone by, the relationship is there. This is the person who knows you best, maybe better than your spouse knows […]
It has taken about a month to go through every single file I’ve downloaded from microfilm, online newspapers, and other sources to confirm that I have (or have not) the actual image that matches my notes/transcriptions. It’s not a bad thing to do. It was just tedious, and took away […]
Some alcoholics ‘hit bottom’ (i.e., reach a point where they become teachable, where they are sick and tired of being sick and tired) sooner than others. For myself, it came after about 30 years of moderate to occasional heavy drinking. At the end, it wasn’t as if I was having […]
It’s Go For Broke Day! It’s also the first anniversary of Emmett’s book blog, “Tell My Story”! One year ago, I was thinking about how to get motivated towards writing Emmett’s book. I’d been in the data/information gathering mode for almost a year. I was feeling antsy. I wanted to […]
In 21 years of teaching, I thought I’d seen it all. This was on a marketing project submitted by one of my graduating seniors:
Back in the mid-1980’s, when I was a year or so out of journalism school with some experience writing for daily newspapers under my belt, I got the itch to move on to a bigger newspaper market, with a more interesting beat, and more exciting stories to write. Columbus, Mississippi […]
Update on the research: The re-collection of lost images week has begun. I’ve reordered the film to rescan those images, and I’m almost finished going over my entire database. It has been a painstaking, image-by-image process. I’m double-checking every fact I have on Emmett that I intend to use in […]
Hello! I am back from the database rebuilding saga that has taken all frigging week. I feel refreshed and recharged, though, because I now have a better organized database. Ya know, if it had to happen, I’m glad it happened NOW, and not when I would be finishing the book. […]
Folks, I will be off the grid for at least several days. The problem: Several hundred images that I captured from microfilm have disappeared. The adjectives “anxious” and “frustrated” barely describe the feelings I’ve had for the past 48 hours. I discovered the images were missing by accident on Saturday. […]
I talk to dead people on a regular basis for Emmett’s story. Because the convo is mostly one-way, I don’t get a lot of sass back from my interview subjects. Also, I don’t have to worry about Emmett and his friends not liking what I had to write about them […]
Tell my story. 