I was reading an article yesterday in the Wall Street Journal about Heather Armstrong, a blogger mom who has one of the top parenting blogs online.  Well, maybe not a parenting blog per se. A blog she writes, as a parent. I think her blog's success is more a tribute to her entertaining writing style than her sound ...

When I went to Loyalist College in Canada back in the 1980s, it was to study Print Journalism.  We learned how to be two-way journalists (print and photo) and to do layout and more ... basically everything you'd need to know to do community journalism.  After I left Loyalist I went on to receive my B.A. from Calvin College here in ...

  Happy Birthday O'zoners, and congratulations on a great first year!  I just read David Prescott's musings in Code Review and have to agree, it does seem like much longer than a year for the Opportunity Zone.  Well, for me that's especially true since I've been doing the RealQuixtarBlog since April of 2004.  I ...

Do you have a Google alert set up for your name? I do. No, it's not vanity (well, maybe a little). But if my name does appear in another blog or in a news piece, it's work-related and I want to see what others are saying about me, just like I want to know what others are saying about Quixtar or Amway. Anyway, my name popped up in a blog ...