Here’s what I wrote to them tonight after I found out from my dad that Caremark CVS has delayed my mom’s cancer medicine. They didn’t say why or what for. No explanation, just no delivery to the drugs that will help keep her alive – drugs to keep her white blood cells going.
What in the [...]
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Caremark CVS delayed my mom’s cancer drugs
Posted in true stories, tagged cancer, Caremark, CVS, drugs, health care reform, HIPPA on September 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Crowdsourcing my mom’s cancer
Posted in crowdsourcing, true stories, tagged Bing Center for Waldenstrom's Research, cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, journalism, librarian, Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Rituxan, true stories, university, Waldenstrom's on August 24, 2009 | 12 Comments »
My mom has always been our clan’s chief information hunter and learner.
That is, until last week, when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer: Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia.
Mom was a medical research librarian – someone who delighted in being a generous resource for journalists like me.
I remember her describing the day in 1981 or 1982 when a [...]
River Walk Tour Webcast
Posted in just for fun, true stories, tagged River Walk, social media on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fair pay and fair play
Posted in journalism, news business, texas media, true stories, tagged fairpay on April 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Today is fair pay day. Here’s my part:
I got into the journalism racket back in 1975, when the newbies were relegated to the manual typewriters and when it was considered too demeaning for a male reporter to be assigned to the “Womens” section of the newspaper.
Although I’d completed one meager semester of journalism in college, [...]
Train in Brackenridge Park
Posted in just for fun, roadside signs, true stories, tagged brackenridge park, kiddie train, San Antonio on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pecan Season in San Antonio
Posted in true stories, tagged meyer pecan cracker, nuts, pecan shellers strike, pecans, San Antonio on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Students, Denver and the Fifth Estate
Posted in bloggers, journalism, online news business, social networking, true stories, university, tagged Dallas Times Herald, Media, UNLV, Twitter, KLAS, DNCC, DNC, Ardyth Sohn, Nokia, N95, Kyte.tv, LasVegasnow.com, Fourth Estate, Fifth Estate, Reid Geary, Ariel Gove, Sandra Hernandez, Denitsa Yotova, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Denver today with a group of University of Nevada, Las Vegas students who are kind enough to call me their teacher. Fellow-learner is more like it.
Once again, we’re experimenting with the future of journalism — using the latest tools in different ways to help people get news and better connect with information, events [...]
Gazpacho, cool soup for a hot day
Posted in food, true stories, tagged cookbook, gazpacho, narsai david, san francisco, soup receipe on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’d been married less than 10 years when we bought this old house on Mahncke Park, but our cookbook collection was already big enough to demand its own built-in bookcase in the kitchen.
Each of the books has a story, which kind of explains why this librarian’s daughter thought it made sense to house Like [...]
See no AP, speak no AP, link no AP
Posted in bloggers, ethics, journalism, online news business, true stories, tagged Amy Gahran, AP, Associated Press, Barak Obama, bloggers, Christopher Sprigman, copyright law, E-Media Tidbits, free speech, Huffington Post, Jack Lail, Kathleen Carroll, Mayhill Fowler, Poynter on June 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I kept telling myself I was way too busy to compose a long, thoughtful piece about AP’s supremely boneheaded, wrongheaded, counterproductive and just plain stupid move to threaten to sue bloggers who quote and link to AP stories but don’t pay AP.
But I am never, ever too busy to vote.
So please count my vote in [...]
Sex, texting, secrets and media lapdogs
Posted in bloggers, ethics, journalism, news business, true stories, tagged Carson City, Chuck Muth, dawn gibbons, governors mansion, Jim Gibbons, KLAS, KNPR, Las Vegas, las vegas gleaner, reno gazette journal, State of Nevada, Talking Points Memo, text messages, Times Online on June 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m shocked (shocked, I tell ya!) at the high percentage of prudes and fraidy cat nannies in the Nevada press corps.
It’s Nevada, for crying out loud, home to Reno, divorce capitol of the world in the north, Vegas Sin City in the south, and legal brothels in between. It’s a place where even the [...]
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