Next up for the girl: Cherry in “The Outsiders” (March 6-15)

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Me: Carolyn, are you ok? Carolyn:Just reminding myself that I am a gift.

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A Christmas Carol (WAOB Audio Theatre)

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A Christmas Carol — new audio adaptation

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Grades submitted.

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Serving at midnight breakfast.

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In December 1999, I Was Blogging About Joseph Heller, E-Journalism, and Travel Writing

In December 1999, I was blogging about: The death of Joseph Heller (author of Catch-22, which invented the term) “On the Internet, every page is hot off the presses… or could be, if editors and publishers simply realized that ‘[i]nteractive media eliminates the holy deadline.’ What’s left over feels more like gardening.” Dot-coms hiring journalists,…

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