Technology

I am always looking for better/easier ways to organize all the information that gets thrown at me each week. When I discovered Remember The Milk I was very excited, as it presented a really easy way to organize what I had to do. I even flirted with keeping long-term to-dos in the system. Unfortunately, the [...]

Management

I am not good at managing time. This is an absolute truth and one I wish to change. It is especially bad when you work at a job that involves deadlines, writing (creatively) on deadline, hard deadlines and often office-less work. I am always tempted to just pack up my things and say, “I’ll take [...]

Schooling

Allow me to step into a’nother sphere in my ven diagram of work. Right now I am attempting to get my head around a massive legislative push in the State of Maine to consolidate school districts.
I was called out in an article I wrote last week on a number of details that I just didn’t [...]

Contacts

I’ve read so many lists of how to be an effective journalist by developing contacts. Indeed, one of my favorite aspects of being a reporter is that it gets me out and doing things. For New Year’s I was at a series of concerts in Blue Hill. I was not on assignment and feeling a [...]