In Memoriam: Rex Hammock

It just doesn’t seem real. One of my first mentors, my longest boss, and a friend, Rex Hammock, died this week. I went to work for Rex in 1994, my second “real job” after college. Hammock Publishing found me by a series of coincidences that...

A New Day in the United Methodist Church

It’s really funny — for several years, I haven’t blogged regularly. I still write a lot about issues I care about, but I tend to do it on Facebook, where I have a lot of friends who like talking about these issues too. I have been meaning to copy...

The fury of asking for love

I’ve been a member of the United Methodist Church my whole life. I’ve been angry at the church since I was in high school. That doesn’t sound terribly healthy, and I assure you there’s more to it than that. I’ve gotten a lot of good out...

Living in My America

The morning after the 2016 presidential election, my children were distraught. My two girls the most—they had been so excited to see a woman elected to the most powerful position in the world. They both knew, to differing degrees depending on their ages, that the...

Links from Old Natchez social media chat

I spoke today about managing your online identity. We talked a lot about teaching your kids the skills they need online, and helping them manage their privacy, as well. We used these links to spur our discussion. In case you weren’t scared already…....

RIP Content Management

Session with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. Going to be a good counterpoint to the last session, it seems. Couple of problems all businesses face: Webmasters don’t scale. Your proprietary CMS is slow to innovate. Your users are your content creators. Trying...