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Considering a Communications Career? 10 Questions to Ask Yourself

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change quote by Stephen Hawking via catherinehamrick.com chamrickwriter with image of Milky Way

A student in communications asked the following question: What strategy would you recommend for someone trying to break into the communications industry? Communications is a broad field, so I certainly do not have all the answers. Instead, I suggested thinking through key questions. 1. Does “service” underscore your attitude? Communications […]

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Chattahoochee Song #3: Autumn Coda, Winter Wondering

I once wandered far to find a foreign autumn That would suit the notion of what I missed— Cold, clear color bursts, as if shot from paint tubes Of finessed acrylics for lazy painters, But dinner-plate dahlias spun portrait pink and soulless Against a Maine-clean sky, their perfumeless ardor, Wafting, seducing ecstatic tourists Finger-blind to […]

Thank you, Mom, for your simple song

Yet I remember the constant of my mother’s life. What would she have said about the stream of articles and newscasts that warn of tribalism cracking apart lifelong relationships at the Thanksgiving table? I imagine a sensible answer: “That’s a choice—to allow the fear, grudges, insults, and cruelty of the disgruntled to violate home and hearth.” All her life, she forgave those who hurt her—with the gentle capacity to truly let go.

Fall Leavings

Canada comes, Cooling the Blue Ridge leaf by leaf, Bronze, copper, and scarlet flame While the morning moon burns white in blue. Umber splotches rosy dogwood, And birds snatch at candy-berry clusters. My face upturns to catch the sun’s glow Through lidded eyes. The wind stirs twigs and branches, Brushing leaves back and forth, And […]