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A Brief Reflection on the 9/11 Memorial

Melissa — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:06:56 +0000

The cab driver, the one who nabbed you near the Empire State Building, he barely turns around. “Where on Wall Street you want to go?” he asks. You pause to consider. You’re not going to Wall Street, not really. But as for where you’re really going, it sounds so crass, so voyeuristic and banal [...click for more...]

Ideas, Shared

Melissa — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:34:34 +0000

In the back of my mind, I’m still sitting around a board room table, staring at a list of names and ideas and values and visions and thoughts and thinking — “how are we ever going to make this work?” Three months later, it worked — but more than that. It soared. For those who [...click for more...]

From Getting A Quote to Inviting Consent

Melissa — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:53:40 +0000

Permit me a long post about something I’ve been musing on in my field of work: namely, how to build effective and mutually constructive relationships between reporters and members of the general public who may enter the news at some point in their lives. Before I begin, a disclaimer: this is a musing on my [...click for more...]

A Short Story of Sparkly Searches

Melissa — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:56:59 +0000

While browsing which Google search keywords landed on my blog, I noticed something odd. So I Tweeted about it. And then… I don’t know who you are, but you are awesome.

Leeky Pots

Melissa — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:13:34 +0000

Last week, I asked Twitter a very important question: What is a leek, and what can I do with it? As it turns out, a leek is a type of mild onion that is good in soup, and also I am the only person who didn’t know what a leek is. Here’s why I was [...click for more...]

This Team Is Fuelled By Cash, And…

Melissa — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:23:58 +0000

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The Portland Diaries, Part II: Shining City On The Hill

Melissa — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:53:50 +0000

This is part II of my series of trying to convince Winnipeggers that we need to look to Portland, Oregon as a model for our future. Part I is here. I am no synaesthete, but when I think of Portland, the word is green. Oregon looks like what I imagine the Cretaceous looked like: huge [...click for more...]

The Portland Diaries, Part I: Street Eat Supreme

Melissa — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:08:55 +0000

On a crisp November day, paradise descends, somewhat unexpectedly, onto a Portland park bench. It’s near to 3 p.m, and the Willamette Valley skies are dried into a blank eggshell slate. Underneath the metal lip of a cluttered red-and-yellow food truck, a Thai woman hauls a portable heater from her kitchen shelves. “For your hands!” [...click for more...]

The Great News Break of 2011

Melissa — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:33:28 +0000

So sometime around the start of fall, I switched from MTS to Shaw. Saved a lot of money. Lost a lot of channels. Among them: CNN and almost anything associated with educational content. Besides, I’ve been distracted. And my distractions have taken me on a looping course away from the news cycle of the moment. [...click for more...]

A Short Ode to Winnipeg Winter

Melissa — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:22:05 +0000

And just like that, the world dies. Ashes of a burned-out summer dance outside the window. A funeral shroud over foreign grasses that clung, ’til now, to green. And by February, we’ll say: “was it all a dream? So it was all just a dream.” We trade in Technicolour summers for rabbit-ear winters. White and [...click for more...]