Simon & Carr
Apparently, this is the week American journalism loses figures it cherishes dearly. Bob Simon did work as a foreign correspondent, was one of the faces you may associate with “60 Minutes,” and his...
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Ryan and I got married in September, which made the month a whirlwind I still only mostly remember. [1] Our honeymoon to the coast of California was marvelous and full of spooky historic buildings, the...
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Post-Mortem: Metatopia 2013
I got back from Metatopia in the wee hours of Monday morning, due to a backup of planes at Newark so awful that the Captain said it was the worst he’d seen in years. We got home, tossed our luggage on...
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Going to Metatopia
This year I’m a special guest at Metatopia! The convention’s in New Jersey, and the slate of panels this year is amazing. If you’re able to get away for a few days, I’d highly recommend going and...
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Post Con Report: Oral History Trip 1
The first in-the-field trip for Makers, Schemers, and Dreamers is done. Last weekend (August 14-19) I was in Indianapolis for Gen Con, interviewing women who work with, play, and make games happen. My...
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ONCE MORE, THE DICE HAVE SPOKEN
The dice have been cast! Winner of the Signal Boost giveaway for the Oral History of Women in Gaming GoFundMe : Elsa S. Henry. Since I’m having a pretty damn awesome time doing this, come back for...
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Safta
I bought an Olympus Pearlcorder S700 in college. I’d wanted to record lectures onto micro-cassette, but hardly ever used it. The first interview I recorded on it was with my Grandmother, Joanna. We...
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The Missing Piece
This is a guest post from historian and peer Elsa E. Sjunneson-Henry. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ “History is also everyone...
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Why an Oral History of Women in Games?
I’ve been asked that question a lot in the past few days. My answer is relatively simple. Because history needs recording. That’s why I want to chronicle women’s lives in tabletop and LARP games as an...
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Books I Built On
There are three books that influenced my interview style early on, as a journalist and researcher. Elements of Crisis Intervention. James Greenstone, Sharon C. Leviton. Greenstone and Leviton’s short...
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Make, Scheme and Dream
In January, I asked for help getting to California, to cover the incredible work being done at NASA’s Dryden facilities. This August, I’ll meet with women during GenCon. I’ll be interviewing them about...
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Twitter Jail
Yesterday I had two laptops open during the Soyuz capsule journey back into our atmosphere, bringing the two astronauts and one cosmonaut of Expedition 35 back to Earth. One laptop had the NASA stream...
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4/15
I’m a journalist, and I do my best to explain why and how things are happening to friends during times of crisis. When to be patient. Who to call. Out of yesterday’s horror, the bombing of the Boston...
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Learning to Live Through This
Live Through This is an ambitious project from New York photographer and suicide attempt survivor Dese’Rae L. Stage. Stage has been telling the largely unheard stories of suicide survivors through...
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Dead Heroes
Hunter S. Thompson died February 20th, 2005. He was a journalist. A writer. A husband, for a time. A father. A man who stayed a close friend to his former wife. A man who lived and loved with his...
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Lockdown
I have a story I tell people, from when I was a news intern. I generally leave out much of the following details when I do so. I always tell it like it’s a funny story. I laugh and grin over dinner...
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