An important lesson kids learn is not to talk to strangers. So naturally, I’ve spent the past couple weeks wandering up to school after school to ask kids how they feel.In my defense, most of the schools invited me and the munchkins all had their parents with them. The parents explained they were excited for the kids to…
Just a few of us have been weighing in on the chief executive of NPR explaining you can’t, like, define a word like “truth,” man…
Each year, I go home to Ohio at Christmas to spend time with the family. And each year, my mom sends me back to Texas with a bunch of stuff from my childhood she wants out of her house.This year, she wandered up with another box, but this one was just filled with stacks and stacks of paper. At…
Several college radio stations in Indiana are doing a simulcast this weekend and invited alumni to come do shows…
Back at Ball State, I had a professor who proudly declared he would fail anyone who used the term “tragic” in a news script. We called him Professor Carlin because he looked somewhat like George Carlin.If you have to tell people something is tragic, he explained, it wasn’t really tragic. The tragic-itude (It’s possible he did…
This week, the li’l munchkins of TCU are moving into their dorms. TCU has taken steps to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. They’ll isolate students who test positive and set them up with care coordinators to set up virtual classwork. And students are not moving in like they would in a normal year. To prevent…
Fellow reporters and academics and a bunch of people I didn’t verify have been complaining on Twitter that they had lost the ability to tweet.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall that I tweet for work, and I don’t especially care how many followers I have. Maybe I don’t have a check mark next to my name on Twitter…