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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 […]

I’ve posted “A Dream to Chase” under the clips section today. The article, published in the Northern Augusta Journal this morning, featured a very passionate 15-year-old speedskater from the Shenandoah Valley. A member of the U.S. National team, Skylar McCormick undoubtably has the potential to reach the Olympics in 2010. She has amazing insight on […]

I said I would write, but I don’t promise to update. I’ll keep posting stories as they’re published, but for now the clips section and resume sections are new. I’d love some feedback.