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Jamie L. Manser

From The Year 2003: How Would You Categorize These Tucson Bands?

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I'm working on a grad class project for LIS 515 - Information Organization - and I am dedicating my studies to KXCI. The first assignment is to: "identify a collection of resources that (a) you are very familiar and knowledgeable (b) need to be (better) organized (c) has a community of users who wish to access the resources." Amanda Shauger thought KXCI's Locals Only would be a good fit. She was right. But, I am not totally "familiar and knowledgeable" with all of the bands listed below. … [Read more...]

Once Upon A Time

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Once upon a time, I was an athlete. Swimming was my sport, and I was pretty decent. I made the state competitions in fall of 1992 as part of a 4x50 freestyle relay team. At 16-years-old, swimming at the UA’s Hillenbrand Aquatic Center was a dream come true! I really didn’t know how I got there. I dismissed the daily hours of training that enabled my body to perform. But, I was used to dismissing myself. It goes with the territory when body shame and self-worth issues are implanted at an early … [Read more...]

A Future of Family, Friends, Music and Fire

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(Published by Saint Cloud Times April 19, 2010.) by Edith Rylander I'm just back from a wedding in Tucson. Arizona, like Minnesota, is a more complex and diverse place than you might think from reading brochures. There is a tourist Arizona, and a farming and ranching and mining Arizona. There is an Arizona of sunburned old desert rats, and an Arizona of New Age seekers, a Hispanic Arizona that goes back hundreds of years, and a Native American Arizona that goes back thousands. Then … [Read more...]