Culture and Communities Reporter @nolanews
New Orleans, LA
Joined April 2010
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Trying to work while pregnant is such a wild experience. Especially when people who don't have kids have no idea what you're going through and every pregnancy is so different that even other women who have been pregnant but had an easier time don't understand at all.
Most of the talk only focuses on paid or unpaid parental leave. Absolutely prepare for that too. But nothing would have prepared me for how difficult it would be to work when I still have several months left before the baby arrives.
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My first column is about losing my father to deportation — a grief of distance and of loving someone still living but lost to reach.
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Went to a place I always order from on Uber Eats and ordered a mango smoothie that I assumed was dairy free and got to see them make it in front of me for the first time. Turned out to about 5% mango chunks and the rest was syrup, frozen yogurt and skim milk.
Been so sick for weeks at this point. Mentally and physically exhausted. But the news never stops and neither do the bills.
As I get older, it feels literally impossible to keep up with the demands of a career in journalism. Especially if you don't want to move into editing/management it's honestly hard to even clearly see what you're working toward after a while.
I feel like I need to talk to some other mid-career journalists. If you've been doing this for 15+ years and you don't want to go into editing/management, what does your vision for the next 15 years even look like.
Thank God for three day weekends. I'm just trying to hold on until I get to it so I can sleep from 5pm Friday to 9am Tuesday. My brain and body both need a break.
Read a story on Fortune this morning. Noticed there were no quotes. Got to the end and saw a note saying it was written by AI. Those kind of notes need to go at the top so we know from the beginning this isnt even based on reporting and a computer just invented it.
Every year we see new studies about how trust in media is reaching new lows. And the media companies say: you know what could help, less reporting, no quotes even in a story describing people’s feelings and waiting until the end to say a computer wrote this. That’s the ticket!
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Officially old? When your memories get decluttered by your kids | Opinion miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e…
I'm not from New Orleans. I wasn't here for Katrina. So when the time came to write about the storm and how it shaped the lives of people who experienced it as children, I knew I had to approach it carefully & with respect. Here's what I was able to do: nola.com/news/katrina/hurric…
There's only so much space in the newspaper so only a fraction of their stories could fit. I wish I could have made this story twice as long as it was to share all the ways the storm shaped people, kids especially. I hope you'll read it. nola.com/news/katrina/hurric…