Category: livelihood

• I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill

  I spent time this week listening to Eva Cassidy, whose music was unknown to me until long after her death in 1996. [h/t to music…

• Rules for Showrunners

  When I first encountered the word “showrunner” I thought it referred to the person who went for coffee and bagels for the tv production crew.…

• This Rigged Game

  A locally-owned food-based business in my community found itself in hot water on social media this week after announcing it would be closing on Sundays…

• Listeners Like You

  I work in public radio. It’s an on-again, off-again relationship that began long ago at a community station in Boulder, where I volunteered for a…

• Hello Summer

  Where are we and why are we in this handcart? Never mind that the Solstice is still a week away. It’s full-on summer in the…

• Supply Side Managers

  The man in the interview was trying his best to make supply-side management sound like something you would choose to do with your one precious…

• All Harness, No Horse

  A little over year ago I wrote about the pressure we were facing in the early days of the pandemic (though we didn’t yet know…