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The FLK blog

A mixed bag of assorted past work examples that are no longer live on their original sites and musings on journalism, communications, content marketing, social media, and more.

Welcome.

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Featured posts

In truth a "get to know me" section, these are also currently my most popular posts...

Can I ChatGPT to an early retirement?

In my opinion, a company owns the output, not the time. Want more? Buy the tools / stage the job, then advertise the job, and then...

Me and my "best" friend: My ADHD

So. In the horoscope my mother sends me (yes, I know), I'm hearing I need to relax to succeed. But, this mind of mine. How does that happen?

Proud to be a disaster

Recovering addict, dropout... The stars aligned for me a few times. Sometimes because people showed up, sometimes because they didn't.

Selection of external clips

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From The Guardian

Solar pushback: how US power firms try to make people pay for going green

Kevin Good is the president of a small solar power company in Kansas – a state that tends to be so sunny you’d think he’d have it made.

“I got into solar at maybe the worst point to do so in the last 50 years,” said Good, who runs Good Energy Solutions in Lawrence, a town of about 100,000.

From FlatlandKC (KC PBS)

How KC’s Walt Disney Learned the Hard Way About Copyright

Disney Creation Steamboat Willie Has Entered The Public Domain After 95 Years Of Copyright Protection. The Mouse’s Adventures In New Genres Are Well Underway.

A photo of the large doors at KU's Strong Hall. The craftsmen responsible for rebuilding them are pictured on either side.

From KU Today

KU Craftsmen Roll Up Their Sleeves to Rebuild the Historic "Doors to Campus"

The bold, iconic entrance to Strong Hall has been the “doorway to KU” for generations of Jayhawks. The two-story main entrance with its 18 windows and 234 panes of glass stands stalwart as the seasons pass and thousands of students, faculty and staff flow through its historic doors. Those doors, however, had seen better times...

A picture of scientist Lee-Gray Boze at work in his lab. There are lots of wires, tubes, and computer screens.

From Montanan Magazine

To the Arctic and Beyond: UM Geoscience Grads Succeed in a Changing Field

Lee-Gray Boze, at 5 foot 10 and wiry in frame, might not be who you think of when you think of a caver – or an arctic explorer for that matter.

Selected Client blogs

INTERVIEW

Academy of American Poets website

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What you see is what you get: Marvin Bell in conversation

SELECTED REVIEWs

From Boston Review

Tracer, Richard Greenfield, Omnidawn Publishing, $15.95 (paper)

Rain Taxi

A Gathering of Matter, a Matter of Gathering, Dawn Lundy Martin,

University of Georgia Press, $16.95 (paper)

Fort Red Border, Kiki Petrosino, Sarabande Books, $14.95 (paper)

Journalism and communications

A collection of past published work no longer available in the wild. Includes institutional communications work from KU and news articles written while editor and co-owner of Denver Metro Media.

ZOOM meeting security best practices

An example of my work with several high-level KU stakeholders. This message went to the entire KU community of over 30,000 recipients.

Effective Online Protection Requires Multiple Layers

Originally published on the KU IT website. This is another example of my work with multiple stakeholders at a large institution.

Imam of largest U.S. mosque, Iliff graduate, returns to give talk on immigrant integration

Iliff School of Theology celebrates landmark anniversary with Renewal Conference led by Imam of largest U.S. mosque.

NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro visits DU, talks of trust, accountability, need to bear witness

Garcia-Navarro spoke yesterday to an assembled group of students, some from South High School who have documented police-teen interactions.

International Church of Cannabis opens, numerous questions remain

By now, almost everyone in South Denver and many others from around the world have heard the news: The International Church of Cannabis...

App-driven food donation program to fill a Denver food desert

2010 U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics claim 31 percent of Americans’ food goes to waste annually. The cost could be $165 billion.

DU seniors institute marks one-year anniversary with expanded programming and accolades

Tucked away at DU is a senior-focused institute making waves both locally and internationally.

Manual High School opens food bank

Homelessness, affordable housing and drug addiction. But kids going hungry in Central Denver? That's not something we talk much about.

Local produce-sharing program Fresh Food Connect expands into 80203

It's been a big year for Fresh Food Connect, Denver’s first community-garden-produce-sharing program targeting the food-insecure.