First Beginnings

In 2008 I drove over 2,500 miles from Naples, Florida to Livingston, Montana.

Why?

Livingston is a former railroad town just a blip on the map today, with a population of barely 8000 rugged souls who mostly lean too far right for my taste.

But it did nourish and boast as a resident one of my favorite writers, Jim Harrison – and what’s a week’s drive to check it out, anyway?

Astonishingly, I discovered that Livingston has a vibrant underground arts scene.

And while there I not only fell in love with Livingston – a place I would return to many times over the years – but also became addicted to cross-country photo road trips.  

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Leaving Teaching . . . (Again!)

Educators are struggling to deal with an explosion of cheating enabled by ChatGPT.

And although there is detection software that can flag suspected AI generated text, writing assignments artificially created derive from no single source and thus 100% proof of plagiarism is not possible.

That’s a thorny problem I now gladly leave to others as I have opted to retire (again!) and pursue my own creative projects full time.

This lengthy video intended only for those interested in the intersection of education & artificial intelligence.

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