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READ MOREBy Sarah Kelley During my tenure as editor of LEO Weekly, the annual Readers’ Choice awards was a project the editorial staff dutifully tackled with a collective groan. It was a labor-intensive endeavor, but that wasn’t the reason for our disdain. It was the fact that the perennial popularity contest was not a true reflection […]
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READ MOREI’m not particularly fond of shopping or crowds. Throw in snarled traffic, fluorescent lights and Christmas music in November, and the scenario transcends to a whole new level of unpleasantness. And so it goes without saying, I would never venture to a shopping mall on Black Friday — unless, of course, it was at the […]
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READ MOREI was in the sixth-grade when I launched my first media outlet. The weekly publication — hand-written on notebook paper, then photocopied and stapled together — featured mostly cafeteria-food critiques and classmate Q&As. It was rudimentary at best and not particularly well-received by my fellow 12-year-olds, but it ignited a lifelong love of storytelling. It’s […]