When I was still squeaky new at the reporter job I’m still doing, a guy from the forest industry came into my office to talk to me. He had charts and all sorts of facts and information and wanted me to write an article about how great the forest industry is. I figured I’d give [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Who Me? Biased?
Posted in Syd's Rants on May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway
Posted in Syd's Rants on May 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I entered the job, knowing it was a temporary position. I figured the newspaper could help me as I was helping it. I want to publish some of my short stories, but I was terrified to send them off. Reporting has helped me over that hump like a huge hand that has shoved me unceremoniously [...]
Don’t ‘Suck it Up’
Posted in Syd's Rants, health concerns on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the worst of modern expressions we’ve recently acquired as a culture is: “suck it up.” We’ve got to stop telling each other this. What do we mean? It implies a lot of nasty messages, such as ‘hold it in,’ ‘tough it out’ and ‘don’t express your feelings.’
Not only is this ultimately impossible to [...]
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