eBay Blog?

Some comments have been posted asking me to create an eBay blog. Is this correct? I will consider this, but frankly, I would rather post here about eBay and promote this site. Would this help you folks? What would you like to learn other than the obvious things, which I have covered in my books?

I'm an Oral Historian

I always have been, but I haven't called myself as such. One of my ambitions is to write peoples' life stories. I believe everyone has a story to tell. And I think I'm pretty good at uncovering those stories. I've been doing it since I was a reporter back in the 70s. I made a new Web page describing this service: check it out here.

Award Winner

An article I wrote for the UIC Alumni Magazine has won an award from CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The magazine received a Bronze Metal in the “Best Articles of the Year” category, 2008 Circle of Excellence Awards Program, for our entry “No Longer a Public Good (May/June 2007). The article, which analyzed how the declines in state funding for higher education have affected UIC, was one of 210 submitted in this category.