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Thanks to all the new visitors popping into the site. This whole thing was envisioned as a means of professional contact, a way to keep other journalist friends and editors updated with my work, as well as my family since they’re so far away. I’ve never promised to be as savvy [...]

A few years ago, I walked into a dressing room, backstage from a pageant. It was one of the first I had ever covered. I watched as a mother combed mascara through the lashes of her little girl, a baby no more than 2 months old who was about to go on stage and [...]

My word, I thought I would never doubt google. It’s hard to imagine doing my job without it. Lame, I know. But the phone book is downright archaic.
So we google. So often, in fact, that the brand is synonymous with searching, like kleenex with tissue and xerox with copies. I hate to say it, [...]

It seems I’ve stumbled on the weather beat. This is only, say, the 10th weather story I’ve done this month. From Wednesday’s Daily News-Record:

HARRISONBURG — Road conditions quickly deteriorated Tuesday, soon after the governor declared a statewide emergency in response to the ice storm that overtook the Valley.
Forecasters called for ice up to [...]

From Wednesday’s Daily News-Record:

By Kelly Jasper
HARRISONBURG — The film opens on a shot of a young Ugandan, a boy with a sack over his shoulder. As the boy treks through dark city streets, he is lit mostly by the camera that films him.
That nameless boy, captured on film three years ago, leaves [...]