MemoirSite | Then & Now | Activity http://memoirsite.com/groups/here-now/ Activity feed for the group, Then & Now. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:14:47 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.8.2 en-US 30 hourly 2 8af41c13c7037388ad4c83bbb8a3b125 Hrodpert posted on the forum topic Marshall McLuhan Birth Centennial in the group Then & Now http://memoirsite.com/groups/here-now/forum/topic/marshall-mcluhan-birth-centennial/#post-12 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:23 -0500 This article prompted a discussion on NPR, I think Coupland was interviewed (I must admit I didn’t listen that closely). McLuhan was completely exonerated and is now revered as a visionary. I was in film school in the mid 1980s and we discussed McLuhan as part of our learning about the impact films have on […]

]]> 0 ea1048130e5a360dc0c3df0f8e9b732d Jerome started the forum topic Marshall McLuhan Birth Centennial in the group Here We Go! http://memoirsite.com/groups/here-now/forum/topic/marshall-mcluhan-birth-centennial/ Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:45:47 -0500 “Often seen as an eccentric at best, a charlatan at worst, … last week events honored the centennial of the birth of the man who is now widely credited as the world’s first media theorist and who introduced ideas like “The medium is the message” and “the global village” into everyday use. … Instead of […]

]]> 0 7c4b66985c432350d2af73107faea66d Jerome posted an update in the group Here We Go!: Marshall McLuhan Birth Centennial "Often seen as an […] http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/100/ Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:36:56 -0500 Marshall McLuhan Birth Centennial

“Often seen as an eccentric at best, a charlatan at worst, … last week events honored the centennial of the birth of the man who is now widely creditied as the world’s first media theorist and who introduced ideas like “The medium is the message” and “the global village” into everyday use… Instead of being…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cfce9cb1d5bb3f945458203e9445085 Jerome started the forum topic Public Service Only Route to Middle Class in the group Here We Go! http://memoirsite.com/groups/here-now/forum/topic/public-service-only-route-to-middle-class/ Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:11:26 -0500 FEARING THE ALTERNATIVE: LOW PAY AND NO BENEFITS – SOME IN THE MIDWEST SEE PUBLIC SERVICE AS ONLY ROUTE TO MIDDLE CLASS. (This heads an article in The New York Times, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, “Ohio Town Sees Public Job As Only Route to Middle Class.”) Public Service? Hah!! A second generation french speaking american, […]

]]> 0 e39f36e952e2cd9036447b20b19bda5d Jerome posted an update in the group Here We Go!: An essay by Dani Shapiro in the NYT Book Review* addresses […] http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/91/ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:10:19 -0500 An essay by Dani Shapiro in the NYT Book Review* addresses the issue of truth and candor in writing about one’s own life. She worries that her twelve year old son will eventually discover and react badly to her tell-all memoir of her dissolute youth.

How should the possibility of hurt feelings and damage to reputations affect the need to tell…[Read more]

]]> 0 c620641bb52b0517a4700dcb130c3762 Jerome joined the group Then & Now http://memoirsite.com/activity/p/74/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:10:26 -0500 0 6cdeabaf57fee92bd076e360e3fe850a Jerome started the forum topic Who's on the Family Tree? Now It's Complicated in the group Here We Go! http://memoirsite.com/groups/here-now/forum/topic/whos-on-the-family-tree-now-its-complicated/ Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:54:31 -0500 (The following is taken from a longer article by Laura M. Holson printed in, The New York Times, Tuesday, July 5, 2011>) When Laua Ashmore and her husband Lee, learned a few years ago that they could not conceive a child, her sister, Jennifer Williams offered to become pregnant with a donor’s sperm on behalf […]

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