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  • Going Woo-Woo with Strangers (‘Did the station try to keep you?’)

    Let’s cut to the chase: Of course they tried to keep me. And it sounds much more dramatic than it really was. In very early January my friend and I went to a manifestation workshop in Wethersfield. (I’m just a little woo-woo. I’ve got one foot in the woo-woo world, and one foot in my…

  • To the people of the Coachella Valley, I’m sorry about my arms.

    If clothes make the man, what are they doing for the woman? As a former female news anchor for over a decade, I can tell you right now, clothes are used against us. And I learned that very early on in my career. My news director told me my arms were too big and I…

  • This is what’s realllly happening during commercial breaks.

    photo: The coworker who got fired snapped this photo when we were out to lunch together Someone in my newsroom was fired in my first week of working in local TV news. She was really nice to me and made me feel welcome in those early days of being the newsroom rookie. She invited me…

  • Why i’m leaving news.

    There are a lot of assumptions about local news. Most of them are not true. What “outsiders” never understand is we are at the whim of media groups and, inevitably, mergers. I’m not much into LinkedIn, not much into “the industry.” Never one to play the game… Not a competitive bone in my body. But,…