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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 as the folks over [...]

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, [...]

Park On Ice Drive Reels From Freakish Storms By Kelly Jasper It’s quiet up on Skyline Drive. There’s the occasional hum of chain saws, the beep of a bucket truck backing up, and the ominous thunder of falling trees. But there aren’t many cars or hikers, and even fewer campers. A sign at the Thornton [...]

Today, through the editor’s grapevine I hear, “Kelly, we need a story on the PS threes tonight.” So I nodded, “Oh yeah, of course. Sure thing.” Truth be told, I didn’t know what a PS threes was. We planned to talk about it, but calls came in, meetings started and other news beckoned. Plan B: [...]

It’s always interesting to me which of my stories generate the most traffic. As I’m sure it is with most jobs, sometimes work that I’d call brilliant will just sit there while other projects that are just initially blips on the radar screen will generate enormous response. So it was with this, which more than [...]