by Andrea James | Apr 9, 2011 | Inspiration, Photos
When is a product finished? It’s certainly not when it is perfect. Perfection is unachievable. Holding out for it wastes time. The longer you wait, the more your product loses its value. This is why media criticism is too easy. With media, the value of the...
by Andrea James | Mar 11, 2011 | Photos, Seattle, That's Life
Springtime is trickling into the Pacific Northwest — with sunbursts between raindrops. The days lengthen as sunset arcs toward 10 p.m. I love this time of year. It means summer is coming — and summer in Seattle is a beauty. But there’s one thing I...
by Andrea James | Feb 7, 2011 | Inspiration, Photos, That's Life
Within 24 hours of my move to the Gulf Coast in 2005, I learned this hard lesson: There is no such thing as paradise. I moved South in pursuit of adventure and career, and to escape Northern winters. It was only once the job had been accepted, the move made, the...
by Andrea James | Jan 2, 2011 | Inspiration, Photos, That's Life
This picture is of my maternal grandmother. Wasn’t she a hottie? She worked at Radio City Music Hall as a Rockette in the 1940s — drawn to New York City, like so many youth, by the lights and glamour. Her stage name was Bobbie Robinson, though her real...
by Andrea James | Dec 21, 2010 | Curiosity, Photos
Do you ever feel like summer whooshes by and winter drags on? I learned today that the opposite is true — the earth actually moves faster in winter. From the New York Times: the time between the spring and fall equinoxes in the Northern Hemisphere is slightly...
by Andrea James | Dec 2, 2010 | Curiosity, Photos
Early on in journalism, one learns the news value of a death. One death in your neighborhood equals 10 deaths in your city, which equals 100 deaths in the U.S., which equals 1,000 deaths in Europe, which equals 10,000 deaths in Africa. The numbers can vary, but you...
