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Avoid the shade
Bright. Clear. Cold. Not so bad in the sun, but it was a different story in the shade. So I tried to run in the sun, but of course all of our preferred routes have nice tree cover, which is a great...
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The Iron Bowl
Words will never work. Photographs are pale, onion skin-thin layers of the event, so transparent that only the perceptible will see them. Video, with all of its attendant sights and sounds and cuts and...
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Día de la última clase
It was the last day of class for me. And a hectic day, at that. We wrapped it up with broadcast writing. I showed the 4,353 slide of the semester and asked the class to write the 129 story of the...
View ArticleLinks, and we find a corner of the Internet that can retire
I’ve been busy with work, so there are just the regular things to read feature. It happens. The story starts like this: Missouri is willing to offer Boeing as much as $1.7 billion in incentives over...
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A lovely day to be outdoors
Sometimes life is so hard to figure out when you’re a big kid: There was a red-tailed hawk floating over the baseball stadium for a few seconds this afternoon. I’d never noticed how the underside of...
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Copeland Cookie Day
Today was Copeland Cookie Day in my class. This is Dr. Copeland: He was my first professor in the doctoral program at Alabama. He served on my comps committee and was always full of great jokes and...
View ArticleThree dead in Alabama storms
Two were killed in Limestone County, in north Alabama. One died in Tuscaloosa, in west Alabama. The location wasn’t in the direct path of a tornado, nevertheless a college student died saving his...
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On my bike ride today, an Alabama fan honked at me three times, because Roll Tide, I guess. But, since it was an Alabama fan, I was really honked at 15 times, wasn’t I? The SEC Network launched today,...
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Students were doing what with email?
There is this giant filing cabinet drawer sitting in one corner of my office. I rescued it some time back from a nearby room. That office space was once the home of Entre Nous, the Samford yearbook....
View ArticleFlipping for gymnastics
Tonight was the NCAA Regional gymnastics meet. There were six teams, with the top two advancing to the NCAA Finals in Texas later this month. I was going to shoot a whole bunch of video, but the...
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Window tape, part 2
Continuing the display from yesterday, this is the time of year on the Samford campus when the art students work on the windows, practicing their craft with tape. This is one of my favorite projects of...
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Remembering the Comers
At lunch today I was reading a forum about race recovery. (And, I promise, I’ll stop talking about this just as soon as the novelty of something I did last Saturday still leaves me feeling wiped out...
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The Iron Bowl
So one of these guys is my second cousin. The guy on the left is his high school buddy. They play football together. The friend has been to big time football college football games before, SEC games...
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Capital City Classic
Auburn and Alabama play one game of baseball in the state capital each spring. It is a non-conference thing, meant to allow people that don’t normally see the two teams face off on the diamond. Auburn...
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At the summer solstice
The sun is big and warm and that’s just about right. Daylight comes a bit later here, since we moved, but it is still bright over dinner, and we eat late. If only it stayed like this all year around....
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I promise, you will not see this coming
Yeah, this is one of those old newspaper sort of days. Because we were supposed to go for a bike ride, but that got curtailed by schedules. And so I ended up waiting for the UPS delivery of a package...
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This post was a century in the making
Water is the predominant geographical feature of the area where all of my family live. I didn’t grow up there, but I understand the story of the Tennessee River. It dips down into the northern part of...
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Rocks and washing machines
I was gripped, a few years ago, by an article that made the case for the washing machine as the most important invention of the 20th century. Sure, you say, there’s also the refrigerator and the...
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Deadline reporting, 100 years ago today
I saw a note that yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the wedding of Ruth Stephenson and Pedro Gussman, and the murder of Father James Coyle in Birmingham. If those names don’t jump out at you,...
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Back to the year 1921
Let us once again go back in time, to see if anything interesting was in the paper 100 years ago today. And there’s … not a lot … that captures our eye these years hence. Sometimes a slow news day here...
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