Back In
After a 25-year hiatus, I returned today to the pages of The Oregonian newspaper. It's a story about one of Oregon's oldest general stores, dating back to the 1800s.
I'm not crazy about the story's flow, a result of the text getting jumbled in the editing process multiple times over the past couple months. I've learned that stuff like this is bound to happen sometimes in the freelance biz. But as long as it reaches the required competence level (which it does) and earns me some extra cash (which it has), I won't sweat things too much.
There will likely be another Greg T. story printed soon, either next week or the week after, about a renovated historic farm complex in the Fischers Mill area of Clackamas County.
Two other story assignments are still developing: one on a new art studio in the Scotts Mills area, and the other on a federally funded construction class at Clackamas Community College.
When and if my stories go online, you can find them here.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Yesternow
Hits
Courtesy of The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator
Uptown Downtown
Photo by Michael Hough, June 1980
Disneyland opening day, 1955
Courtesy of Stuff From The Park
Click on photos to enlarge.
Hits
Courtesy of The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator
Uptown Downtown
Photo by Michael Hough, June 1980
Disneyland opening day, 1955
Courtesy of Stuff From The Park
Click on photos to enlarge.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Positive Linking
I'll never be able to do as much positive linking as one of the masters of the craft, John Tesh, does at his website.
But in these dog days of summer, when the kids spend more timehogging using the home computer, and I don't have much time or energy for my blog, sharing the link love beats leaving my six readers wondering if I fell off a cliff.
So wake me when September comes, and here goes nothin'...
Added to the WATP list o' links:
*A handy rundown of "The Most Popular Myths in Science," courtesy of livescience.com.
*Quality blogwork by Naz Nomad and slacktivist.
*My pages of photos at flickr.com.
Two wild You Tube clips from the '70s:
*Stevie Wonder and band (featuring a young Ray Parker Jr. on guitar) kicking out the jams on Sesame Street circa 1977, doing Stevie's classic "Superstition."
*William Shatner (introduced by a "truly proud" Bernie Taupin) doing a very Shatner-esque version of the John/Taupin hit "Rocket Man," in 1978.
And while I'm in the mood...
I'm still trying to find the right way to fit a regular workout schedule into my busy weekly routine -- but I may have finally found it in the past couple weeks. Monday and Tuesday after work, weights and situps and treadmill. Friday morning the same, and then if schedule allows, Sunday afternoon for more extensive weight work and aerobic exercise. Not ideal, and I still haven't settled on a "lose weight" diet, but a step in the right direction.
***
I continue to await my first freelance stories showing up in The Oregonian. I've finished two, done some legwork for another, and got a lead today for a fourth. But the two I finished have both had their print dates delayed -- the first one was finished three weeks ago -- and I'm getting concerned that either my work isn't good enough, and/or there's just too much competition for print space. If so, I hope this is clarified for me soon, so I'm not left up in the air. I got into this because I badly want to make some extra cash, and if this is not the way to do that, I need to know so I can look elsewhere.
***
My daughter, who'll be a high school senior this coming year, got a lead role in this year's Molalla (OR) Community Theater musical, Guys and Dolls. She will portray Sarah, played on film by Jean Simmons and originally on Broadway by Isabel Bigley.
My wife and son are also in the production, making this MCT show the fifth consecutive summer musical we've gone through as a family (I've done the press release every year.) The show will run from August 11-19.
The day after the MCT show ends, the family we'll be heading to southern Oregon for our yearly family vacation, seeing (among other things) Crater Lake and two plays at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival.
Next year my wife hopes to direct her first MCT production, provided the theater secures rights to another past Broadway musical, Seussical.
I'll never be able to do as much positive linking as one of the masters of the craft, John Tesh, does at his website.
But in these dog days of summer, when the kids spend more time
So wake me when September comes, and here goes nothin'...
Added to the WATP list o' links:
*A handy rundown of "The Most Popular Myths in Science," courtesy of livescience.com.
*Quality blogwork by Naz Nomad and slacktivist.
*My pages of photos at flickr.com.
Two wild You Tube clips from the '70s:
*Stevie Wonder and band (featuring a young Ray Parker Jr. on guitar) kicking out the jams on Sesame Street circa 1977, doing Stevie's classic "Superstition."
*William Shatner (introduced by a "truly proud" Bernie Taupin) doing a very Shatner-esque version of the John/Taupin hit "Rocket Man," in 1978.
And while I'm in the mood...
I'm still trying to find the right way to fit a regular workout schedule into my busy weekly routine -- but I may have finally found it in the past couple weeks. Monday and Tuesday after work, weights and situps and treadmill. Friday morning the same, and then if schedule allows, Sunday afternoon for more extensive weight work and aerobic exercise. Not ideal, and I still haven't settled on a "lose weight" diet, but a step in the right direction.
***
I continue to await my first freelance stories showing up in The Oregonian. I've finished two, done some legwork for another, and got a lead today for a fourth. But the two I finished have both had their print dates delayed -- the first one was finished three weeks ago -- and I'm getting concerned that either my work isn't good enough, and/or there's just too much competition for print space. If so, I hope this is clarified for me soon, so I'm not left up in the air. I got into this because I badly want to make some extra cash, and if this is not the way to do that, I need to know so I can look elsewhere.
***
My daughter, who'll be a high school senior this coming year, got a lead role in this year's Molalla (OR) Community Theater musical, Guys and Dolls. She will portray Sarah, played on film by Jean Simmons and originally on Broadway by Isabel Bigley.
My wife and son are also in the production, making this MCT show the fifth consecutive summer musical we've gone through as a family (I've done the press release every year.) The show will run from August 11-19.
The day after the MCT show ends, the family we'll be heading to southern Oregon for our yearly family vacation, seeing (among other things) Crater Lake and two plays at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival.
Next year my wife hopes to direct her first MCT production, provided the theater secures rights to another past Broadway musical, Seussical.
