Yesterday’s question: Can I fit my nimiety* of gear into my compact car? Today’s answer: With room to spare. Amazing grace. I’ve noticed that my possessions seem to inflate when it’s time to reload my vehicle after I break camp, so it’s much harder to fit everything back in before heading home. You witnessed that phenomenon with the tent yesterday. Luckily, this time I have a little extra space back there. Well, off I go, […]
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Packed & Ready
Almost time to go. What are the odds that all of this… …will fit into this bitty thing? We will find out early tomorrow morning, minutes before I head off on my Sierra adventure. I’ve gone through all but an hour of the handful of Dad’s old tapes that I got digitized. Here’s an edited 30-second bit recorded on March 3, 1959. Once again (because, as you well know, It’s All About Me), it features […]
Read moreTinna the Bad Girl
Man, am I on a blog binge! Forgive me for the deluge of posts. During my possession-purge these last few weeks, I peered into a forgotten cabinet to discover two dozen seven-inch boxes of brittle, shiny-orange Scotch audio tape that Dad had recorded starting in the early 1950s. Throughout his life he was a fanatical documentarian. In this respect, I am my father’s daughter. In photographic slides, audio, and later Super 8 film, he chronicled […]
Read more“Something Remarkable Happens When You Listen”
That’s the title of a short article I wrote for an issue of Democracy in Action, a publication of the now-defunct NGO called the Institute for Democracy (Idasa) in South Africa. That was in April of 1995, at the end of my two months in Cape Town where I’d been teaching the art of radio documentary and also co-producing two half- hour programs with local producers Sue Valentine, Siviwe Minyi and Jackie Davies. Though I’ll […]
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