News

I see this blog as a vacation for you guys from the hardships of the day. But today is not going to be a vacation from the news, because I, like many of you, can’t stop thinking about the day’s headlines.
My heart goes out to all who were personally touched by the horror that occurred at Virginia Tech. I have read the papers, checked the web, watched the news, as more information has come in. It is yet another senseless tragedy.
I have no words of wisdom. No quote that seems to help. I have nothing to add except my own sorrow, and that we add our prayers to those of so many others today.
It is events like this that make me feel that somehow my job isn’t as important as it might be. I am always reluctant to take up time from real policeman, real firefighters, real nurses, real doctors, real EMTs, the real people who help us in our times of need. I always feel like I should apologize for taking up their time. I write about tragedy, they deal with it for real. When the real stuff hits, I find fiction cannot compare either in pain or triumph with fact.
They say that truth is stranger than fiction, and that can be true, but truth is also more painful than fiction, and that is always true.