Summer comes to a close
A dark time in my life has finally passed. The dark cloud of its existence is rapidly breaking apart only to reveal refreshing sunshine. Summer […]
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Powerful poem can be read two ways
Poetry is an incredibly powerful and complex form of expression. It is an art, and to do it well is no easy task. So when […]
The Voice comes back from the dead
It has been a long time. Far too long, actually. I haven’t posted in a long time because of work and school. Of course, I […]
Social media doesn’t hold as strong of a hold as thought
Wednesday I performed an impromptu experiment. I was my own test subject, and I decided I would see what it is like to go one […]
Vogts misses posting
Dear readers, I just wanted to apologize for not posting a “Front Page Friday” piece last Friday (though I did get one posted today) and only posting […]
Woman blogs the end of her life
On March 27, Eva Dien Brine Markvoort, of Vancouver, Canada, died after battling cystic fibrosis. She was 25 years old. Itself, her death isn’t that […]
Vogts adopts new publishing method
This blog, The Voice of the Vogts, is great and is my primary blog. I love the WordPress interface, but I have found it difficult […]
NY Times partners with NYU
In January 2010, I wrote about how The New York Times was turning editorial control of one of their blogs, The Local: Fort Greene and […]
Online journalism dubbed Fifth Estate
The press in the United States and abroad has long been referred to as the Fourth Estate. The term was seemingly coined by Scottish writer […]
NY Times turns blog over to CUNY
In March 2009, The New York Times launched a blogging experiment by debuting two blogs they called The Local blogs. One covered New York’s Fort […]
Friend starts blogging in 2010
A friend of mine, Rebecca Windle, teaches fourth and fifth grade at the Western Plains Elementary School in Ransom, Kan., which is where I now […]