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It's 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and I cannot sleep because of how perplexed and annoyed I am right now. A dear friend of mine from my time at Ohio University has chosen to distance herself from me and other college friends with no apparent explanation. It's beyond my comprehension why she would initiate an e-mail correspondence with me, then engage ( Read more... )

It's a typical Monday at The Marietta Times. I'm sitting at my tiny desk in the overcrowded newsroom waiting for a county commissioner to call me back. Although I'm an education reporter and should never really need to speak with a county commissioner, I'm waiting in unseen desperation for his phone call so that I can complete a story on (this is ( Read more... )