I’m really enjoying Mastodon, well… Jawns.Club‘s version of Mastodon. When I started out on Twitter back in 2007/8 I loved the local feel of the site and followed people I knew in real life or in the local area. As Twitter grew in popularity, it got cluttered for me. I began to get followers and […]

Mastodon, the social network, not the Heavy Metal Band, came on the social media scene just over 2 years ago. It was immediately embraced by those who felt Twitter had sold out to to corporate interests and wasn’t what it once was. It also seemed and still seems to not to be able to deal with […]

I’m sitting on the top of a mountain in the Green Mountains of Vermont. On my computer writing.  The air is crisp and the foliage is green. As I’m writing I’m realizing that Vermont is special place. A place where natural world meets the modern world. Bears, Deers and Moose run free up here. Yes, […]

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This article was first published on the Raging Chicken Press The shooting at The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday, where 5 people were killed, hit me hard. As a recovering newspaper journalist, I used to work for papers about that size. I covered similar stories to those that the journalists at that paper cover. I […]