...meaning one more thing off the bucket list. For years, aye decades, I've wanted to serve on a jury. Never quite understood the comments from folks who would do anything to avoid it. Now I've spent plenty of time IN courthouses and IN courtrooms - just never doing the deed. I've gone to countless arraignments … Continue reading Another one down…
...as a teacher. I never actually left the land of video but have been retired from teaching for some three plus years now. Last month I returned to Middle College High School where I went through the horror of learning how to teach. That was a truly tumultuous journey...from a single Digital Video Production class … Continue reading A shot visit to my roots…
There are some meaty stories out there...and producer John Goheen began stalking them more than a year ago. A unique alignment of numbers occurred last year. November 11, 2011. 11.11.11...and a tie-in with "on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" which marked the war to end all wars. WWII. Sadly … Continue reading From dogs and ponies to dogtags and a doc…
(look at bottom of post for updates) This past Monday Stockton Record photographer Clifford Oto created a field of dreams of sorts in a sorry part of town. The location: Stockton Family Shelter. A lot of folks who could have lost hope live there, struggling day to day and hoping for the best for themselves … Continue reading Managing media…
The bboyz battle, that is. About four years ago some of my broadcasting boys asked to use my classroom during lunch to practice dancing. That's when I discovered the bboyz culture. Highly energized contortionists who threw themselve into dance with wild abandon. Turns out I love both the music and the movement. After my husband's … Continue reading The battle is complete…
Took a day off from retirement to be a substitute teacher at my first school - Middle College High School at Delta College in Stockton, California. The name's a mouthfull, so we just call it MCHS or Middle College. I was subbing for an AVID 12/English 11 teacher. And no - for the nonlinear crowd, … Continue reading Civil disobedience…
In the beginning I had ten Canon Elura 100s to run my broadcast program at Ronald E. McNair High School. Two were heisted over the past few years. Of the eight remaining, two have tape carriage problems and three (not the same ones of course) had the threads stripped in the tripod holes. The latter … Continue reading On the hunt for the wildly elusive affordable camcorder…
A large part of my philosophy of life is to give back once you have taken. Along your road of life many people will help you. Some of you will receive more help than others, while those others may not receive much at all. But the amount isn't what matters. What matters is passing on … Continue reading It’s not just a Christian thing…
Every day when I wander out into the front forty to pick up my daily dose of what's happening, I weigh in on the future. Each day around sunrise a small blue truck whizzes past and a small white bundle flies through the air, landing with a thud and a long slide. The (Stockton) Record. … Continue reading Critical mass…
While I've had the Canon HV20 for a year and played with hi-def on some projects, I posted my first hi-def video to youtube yesterday. Went out last Friday night to cheer my break dancers (I'm the high school club advisor) on at a competition and wouldn't you know it, had a camera in hand, … Continue reading Experiment in HD…
