The Blockhead Chronicles
Musings of a recovering journalist
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One of Those People
Rugged, outdoorsy, lightweight. Gee, why doesn’t EVERYONE carry an oxygen concentrator? (Image from Pure Oxygen Store.)
For new readers: More than a year ago, at the beginning of 2025, I told myself that I would finally write my cancer mem...
The Childhood Books That Changed My Life
A few days ago, while watching another nail-biter of a Cleveland Guardians game, a graphic came up: Guardians pitcher Parker Messick had the lowest ERA for a Cleveland left-handed rookie since Gene Bearden in 1948.
“Gene Bearden? Who’s Gen...
The Last Time I Saw New Orleans
A collapsed Magazine Street building, c. 2025. Image from WWL-TV.
These are my memories of New Orleans:
Traffic controls on the Greater New Orleans Bridge. The decrepit, peeling façade of the Coliseum Theater as you drove up the Camp Stre...
Dropping the Hammer
For new readers: More than a year ago, at the beginning of 2025, I told myself that I would finally write my cancer memoir. I had saved my posts and notes from the 15 months I went through treatment, and I was going to put it together into...
Review: ‘Careless People’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams
This book pissed me off.
It pissed me off because the people it’s primarily about — Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, his onetime COO Sheryl Sandberg, former VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage, and VP of Global Public Policy Joel K...
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Recovering journalist. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." - Samuel Johnson
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