Barb's Burblings

A pat on the back

Possibly the thing I am most proud of is The Gettysburgian. We won the Pacemaker for the year I was editor-in-chief, and it just blew me away. From the first issue of my freshman year (I had a movie review in it) to the last, I kept every copy. But somewhere along the way, I managed to lose the copies from my senior year. I have no idea where they went, and it was killing me. I particularly was missing the last issue, because in the last issue were the senior reflections. All of the seniors on staff wrote short articles--and there were quite a few of us in the class of 2000.

This weekend, Kathy and Robert were in town and we went up and visited Gram who, it turns out, still had a copy of that final issue, and she gave it to me. And I went to my reflection and read it and wow, it's actually pretty good. I've always liked editing more than writing; I get oddly self-conscious about my writing. But looking at it from a distance of 6 years, I really like it.

Check it out! (You need to click it to see the larger image; you should be able to read that one.)