Tag: Jeff
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I am addicted to coffee.
It started my sophomore year of high school. My parents are coffee drinkers, and they always had a fresh pot around. I never paid much attention to it, as coffee was for “grown ups.” Then one morning, after a late-night phone conversation with Kyle, I was bemoaning to him between classes that I was tired and…
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10 years ago | 10 years later
Written on August 29, 1994: In ten years I would like to be out of college and married. [10-year-later update: I was 4 years out of college, and I was married exactly 10 years and 6 days after this was written] I want to be a journalist at a large newspaper, perhaps writing editorials. [10-year-later…
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September 11, 2001
On that day 7 years ago, I was still a rookie copy editor and page designer at the newspaper. Fresh from college, I had been working there just 9 months, and this day would be the first day I would see what an impact working for the media can have – not just on the…
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It was a curvy road finding you
But when our eyes touched joined in our new world I could do nothing but stare and wonder what it would take to know you to hold you and then we said hello Cedar Mountain was ours but it couldn’t keep us You belonged to the shore but my heart was yours You were in…