SouthtownStar staff photographer Matt Marton snapped this incredible photo at the funeral of 1st Lt. Derwin Williams, who was killed July 6 in Afghanistan. In the photo, Williams’  family is presented with flags after a military funeral at Homewood Memorial Gardens.

I’d like to host some multimedia I’ve done right here too, but there’s two problems with that:

1.) WordPress, the company hosting this blog, generally doesn’t allow you to grab certain types of code and slap it into a site on their vast network. They say it’s for security reasons. Fair enough.

2.) Some of my recent work seems to have disappeared from the Web altogether.  It’s not that it’s even that old, but apparently some sites don’t archive as far back as October 2008.

Stay tuned…

For now, I won’t delve into the Chicago Journalism Town Hall, which took place last weekend. All I’ll say is that I learned a little, I learned a lot.

Plenty of good summaries, including audio of the event and a roundup of its coverage can be found at the Town Hall’s Web site.

But right now,  I’m just going to make some much-needed updates to the “resume” and “clips” pages.

Cubby Bear
Originally uploaded by caseycora76

Just gotta love Wrigley Field. Cans of domestic beer for $4.50 and this person, dressed in a bear suit, holding a tip jar. Probably made a killing.

But not from me. I only tip costumed people in high fives.

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