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Luanne Austin has penned a local column for years now, touching on everything from turn signals to Jesus in recent weeks. I fell in love with a brilliant column that addresses the age-old question (at least in these parts): Dress up for church? Or not?
It’s no secret I’m young. It should follow that I own [...]

The Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) offered me a job today. I broke every rule every job coach has ever tried to teach and just about screamed “I’ll take it” before you could even say “negotiate.”
It worked out okay anyway. I’ve worked for three weeklies owned by the same publisher for a year and a half. [...]

A student journalist “scared as hell” about job prospects wrote Detroit Free Press recruiter Joe Grimms today. The dreamer without much, if any, internship experience was worried that he or she hadn’t graduated from a good enough school, yet yearned for daily newspaper experience. The letter was anonymously signed by “Worried.”
Grimms has fielded many other [...]

So it’s old news. I just never got around to e-mailing this out, and now with the blog up and running, I wanted to share the obituary of a Midlothian, Va., man who died in June. From the July 9 Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, who had tired of reading obituaries noting [...]

We all get confused. (If I can admit it, so can you.) That’s where Slate’s Middle East Buddy List comes in.
It’s a great interactive “who’s who” in the Middle Eastern politics, offering a cheat sheet for those of us who don’t remember if it’s Hamas that’s down with Hezbollah or if al-Qaida is straight with [...]