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John Glionna
My dear friend is an endlessly creative and resourceful writer. His recently launched website is a treasure.
John Glionna Reporting from Olympia
My old buddy John Glionna was up in the Olympia area recently doing research on a couple of stories for the Los Angeles Times. It was great to see him: John is perhaps the most wide-awake person I have ever known, and he’s been a stalwart friend to me over many years. John’s a brilliant and […]
“Where the Sagebrush Grows”
Brittany Bronson’s review of my friend John Glionna‘s book, “Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State,” really captures Glionna’s gifts and the heart of his charming, striking feature writing. Most of Nevada’s land — almost 86 percent — is uninhabited by people, covered in sagebrush, and managed by the federal government. That leaves plenty […]
A gift for friendship …
I’ve certainly been the lucky recipient of John‘s. Many have. I remember the moment well: I was lounging in bed on a Saturday night, drinking red wine and reading some escapist nonfiction, when the telephone rang. It was a young friend, a guy half my age, and he was in crisis. He and his girlfriend […]
Feedback
A theme in all my orientation classes is the primacy of feedback in communication: how you give it, how you receive it. When you gratefully welcome feedback into your life from colleagues, you grow as a professional, because you learn. When you usefully provide feedback to your colleagues, they get better as professionals, because they […]
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