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I had a couple of profound experiences during presentations at this weekend’s newspaper conference. One of them came in a luncheon about covering mass shootings, particularly school shootings.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. At the front of the room two unlikely men sat together: John Voket, the associate editor of the Newtown Bee (the weekly …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2013/02/11/finding-our-humanity/
For anyone keeping score, today was my EIGHTH day in bed with what I have now learned is the “norovirus.” Although I’m feeling much more human today, I’m still coughing a lot and feeling exhausted, so I’m going to spend one more day working from home. Then the weekend to rest and hopefully I’ll be …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2013/01/10/sickbed-humor/
A couple weeks ago a friend told me that she loves it when I write about the newspaper because it reminds her that some people work in offices with people they like. 🙂
Well, today I have just the thing! For the past several months, I’ve been writing down the funny things that my co-workers …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/12/24/a-holiday-chuckle-just-for-you/
“I need help.”
Over the past several years, I’ve gotten pretty good at knowing my own mind and asking for what I need. But hot, fat tears ran down my cheeks as I typed those three words.
The logjam started a couple months ago while I was working on the 175th anniversary special edition for …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/10/07/i-need-help/
The past 24 hours have been very enlightening – not easy, but enlightening. 🙂
Yesterday I had an issue with a company that spanned conversations with several customer service agents. By the time I got to the supervisor, I was irritated. No one I’d spoken with seemed to have any interest or ability to solve …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/08/02/letting-myself-be-angry/
A while back, I had that moment when I realized I was a part of the newspaper newsroom. It was when my brain suddenly started thinking in terms of “inches” rather than “word count” (inches are how we measure the length of a story).
I’ve heard people talk about this with foreign languages – suddenly …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/06/28/drinking-the-kool-aid/
I’ve had a fascinating opportunity this week to practice the second of Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements: “Don’t take anything personally.”
As a habitual people pleaser, I made taking things personally a high art. In the last few years, I’ve made a conscious effort to take my sensitivity down a notch or six and realize that …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/06/27/the-second-agreement-dont-take-anything-personally/
Let’s just call a stinky pile of poo a stinky pile of poo. This is not a pretty miracle. This is a stinky pile of poo.
Yesterday I covered a graduation for the newspaper. It was a beautiful sunny day and I knew that I had everything I needed – a list of the graduates, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.leahcarey.com/themiraclejournal/2012/06/17/the-miracle-of-the-sunburn/
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