The workshop never stops.
Rachel is pleased to report, her workshop story about green burials is now live on Salon.com.
Rachel writes:
Three kinds of people go for natural burial, says Mary Woodsen. Tree huggers, people who want to save money, and the “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” crowd.
She then goes on to punctuate facts [...]
Here’s part of a post-workshop note from Kristy to Chris.
I indeed made it home safely and am working on my to-do list. …
Immediately upon returning home, my staff and I met for the most productive planning session we have ever had. I gave them one of Mike’s columns as inspiration and we [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Congrats to Mary Ann.
Her evocative story on artist was published yesterday (more photos in print edition, she explains).
Art and Life Collide in Provincetown
By Mary Ann Bragg
mbragg@capecodonline.com
May 16, 2010
PROVINCETOWN — Matt Bollinger has pinned up a blank piece of paper, as tall as a person.
The paper is about five feet high; white, very white, [...]
Hey all,
Here’s a Workshop Notebook post from Ellen and a request as well.
If you’d like to respond, especially to the part about keeping the workshop going for tomorrow, please comment here or email me and I’ll pass it on.
Thanks, Barbara
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“Telling people’s stories was a way of finding out about my own. [...]
… in which we record our comments as we are going out the door at the end of the Workshop.
“The Spirit and inspiration my workshop bothers and sisters share will carry me forward on this journey to become a storyteller.”
Howard Frank, Pocono Record
Hannah Banana of the Cape Cod Times reacts as the Future of News talks unfold during the 2010 Mike Levine Workshop.
“What was that about hash tags?” she wonders. Mary Ann Bragg, also of the CCTimes, is absorbed in the discussion which mixed public and journalists for the final night of the workshop.
Beth Brelje of the Pocono Record, Kristy Gray of the Casper, Wyoming, Star-Tribune; Paula McMahon of the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Lee Hill Kavanaugh of the Kansas City Star listen up while Neil Swidey of the Boston Globe magazine explains how and why getting access to sources is an education process — for the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Thank God, Denise Swidey made us some Workshop pralines. They came all the way from Boston via Boston Globe magazine man Neil Swidey.
Read the rest of this entry »Hey, nobody said this was going to be easy.
Above, Chris Mele of the Pocono Record. Below, Rachel Dickinson, freelancer for The Atlantic, Smithsonian, others. They’re in the Writing Room at the Shandelee Lake Inn for the Mike Levine Workshop 2010.
After running the gauntlet of work and obligation and stress, the end of 2006 leaves many folks feeling nothing but weary. We stumble to a finish line only to get up and start a new race. Will 2007 be the same stuff, different year?
It doesn’t have to [...]