I often feel that I don’t have any particular talents any more. What I used to know (e.g. as a radio producer, web consultant and ESL teacher) has fled the muddy depths of my brain and/or is obsolete. But it occurred to me just now that I am indeed expert in one thing: worrying. I wonder if I can package and market that, or otherwise get paid for it. Oh, I’m also quite good at […]
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Sociable undertakings
“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 […]
Read moreBut I’m Alive
Yesterday someone thought I was dead. What happened was, I was at a party and I introduced myself. “I’m Ginna.” “Ohhhh,” said the person I was talking to. “I remember you. Ginna H___ , right?” Wrong. That Ginna died a few years back. In conversations yesterday, I heard two words I had to look up: puerile (from Michael) and senescence (from Milt). As you can see, the conversations were interesting. Meanwhile, I mispronounced a word when I was […]
Read moreHow Not To Get a Job
Not getting jobs is what I specialize in these days. Let me tell you how I do it. Let’s say you’re applying for a job delivering groceries. That requires a lot of, you know, driving. Let’s say you’ve made it successfully through the first interview so you’ve really got a foot in the door for your in-person interview. You’re enthusiastic and upbeat as you face an ocean of twenty-somethings buzzing around in the warehouse. You go […]
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