My Parents Encouraged Me In Everything I

I Think The Feature Reporter Often Walks A Very Thin Line Between A Truly Human Story And One That Slops Over Into Mushiness Or Sentimentality.

That Was The Overwhelming Thing To Me, The Joy Of Carrying My Portable Typewriter To An Event And Trying To Describe It.

I Would Love To Write Something That People Would Still Read 50 Or 100 Years From Now. That Comes With Growing Older, I Think.

The Mississippi River Carries The Mud Of Thirty States And Two Provinces 2,000 Miles South To The Delta And Deposits 500 Million Tons Of It There Every Year. The Business Of The Mississippi, Which It Will Accomplish In Time, Is Methodically To Transport All Of Illinois To The Gulf Of Mexico.

When We Become A Really Mature, Grown-up, Wise Society, We Will Put Teachers At The Center Of The Community, Where They Belong. We Don't Honor Them Enough, We Don't Pay Them Enough.