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You Ain’t Got A Dog In That Fight . . .
The best thing about today’s social media applications is that everyone with a computer can write about whatever they want to write about, push a button, and share it with the world. But the worst...
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Be an Expert
A few days into my first post-college, big-boy job with the Federal government, my boss offered me one of the most profound bits of professional advice I have ever received. “If you want to succeed...
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Opening paragraph to a rediscovered story . . .
“Stars above, sand below, Amanda waded waist deep through warm waves, enjoying the solitude of the North Carolina beach by night. She was nearly six weeks into her summer sabbatical and had been slowly...
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Ignore My Times Union Blog, Please
I just logged in quickly to my Times Union blog this afternoon to check for blog comments that needed approving, and was absolutely appalled and dismayed to discover that my page was filled with...
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Bye Bye to You, T.U.
I’m still seeing a variety of paid political advertisements swirling on my personal, unpaid, community Times Union blog page this morning, which I consider more and more inexcusable every time I view...
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Mopping Up: 2014 in Review
So here we are, December 31, 2014, the last day of the final year of my first half-century. How did it go? I documented my life in 2014 publicly via 55 blog posts here and at Indie Moines — which I...
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DSM to ORD
Assuming all goes well with final house sale closing tomorrow morning, tonight will be our last night as full-time residents of Des Moines, Iowa. We will be in temporary housing in Chicago until...
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1,000
WordPress tells me that this is the 1,000th post on J. Eric Smith Dot Com. Huttah! I’m guessing that there aren’t a lot of solo blogs out there that hit this mark — though in reality, I’ve actually...
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Farewell, Metroland?
For the first time in 38 years, Albany-based alternative newsweekly Metroland will not publish a new edition this week, following the seizure of its offices and property by the New York State...
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Iowa Caucus Day 2016: Resource Guide
Marcia and I moved to Iowa a little over four years ago, at the peak of 2012’s caucus season. Within a month of our arrival, Marcia was interviewed and quoted in an internationally-syndicated Reuters...
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My friend Kenny (who once made the observation “Centipedes are the spiders of the bathtub” in a perfectly contextual fashion) posed a question on Twitter this morning: Is there a word for when...
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I’m still seeing a variety of paid political advertisements swirling on my personal, unpaid, community Times Union blog page this morning, which I consider more and more inexcusable every time I view...
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Marcia and I moved to Iowa a little over four years ago, at the peak of 2012’s caucus season. Within a month of our arrival, Marcia was interviewed and quoted in an internationally-syndicated Reuters...
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