Shoot ‘Em Coming at You

If you’re also a “camera nut,” you will remember when your first photograph was published.   I do. Jordan Steyer, a student at the University of Texas, recently wrote his thanks for the Maxine Smith Elam scholarship award and exuded the same enthusiasm for his published Daily Texan photos. Of course, publishing your photo these days takes only a punch or two on your I-phone. But not in 1944 when I was a weekend, high school “cub”

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90th Blog

          “The past is history, the future is mystery, and the moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called ‘the present’.” I quote from a “success” book written by Deepak Chopra, because on this October 11th day I receive the ‘present’ of a 90th birthday.   Because I write this message on October 4, 2018, there’s still some mystery left. One birthday present will come when Amazon and Audible sell another “Anne Bonny’s Wake” audiobook. Maybe E-book

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Fred the Printer

Year 1968, I taught my first Editing and Copy Reading class to would-be journalists. I warned about a fictional bully from the International Typographical Union (ITU).             “Beware Fred-the-Printer in the leather apron who locks up the lead type inside the metal page form.             “Don’t touch, don’t rearrange the type. You may violate union rules and the newspaper’s contract. The  ITU shop foreman might even tell his printers and linotype operators to ‘walk out.’ 

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