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2009 In Review: Highlights and Struggles

Reading a blog post from my friend Whitney Mathews in Kansas City inspired me to write this, so here goes.  It’s that time of year when everyone blogs about the year.  I’ll sum up with my personal experiences in 2009 with some bullet points:

Experienced the inauguration while living right here in Washington, DC.  (January)
Started my [...]

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She said YES! We’re engaged!

Yeah yeah, it took me 6 years to do it, but it’s done! I asked Lindsey to marry me!  I convinced her to get out of the apartment Friday evening after our 4-mile training run and visit the Jefferson Memorial.  To us, that memorial is magical. Every time we go there, we usually end up [...]

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My First Year in Washington, DC

Today is my first anniversary working and living here in Washington, DC.  After being in St. Louis my whole life, I accepted a job as Digital Development Director for WUSA 9, the CBS affiliate and flagship broadcast station for Gannett.  I started August 4, 2008.  I’ll get right into my year in review:
What has been [...]

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Ellen’s 50th Birthday

For many years, I kept hearing about how Ellen was going to get a limo for her birthday, and it happened!  It was a party I couldn’t miss and flew back home just for the weekend to be there with her and the family.  Ellen, Erin, Ashley, and the McDermott family all hopped in the [...]

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A familiar face in Rockville

My friend Rob Osterwise texted me last week saying he would be visiting Washington, DC on business.  Rob and I go way back to the early days in high school. We’ve stayed friends throughout college and long thereafter. He left St. Louis in 1994 with Tracy (Weber) for a new job, and just last year [...]

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