How did we do it? There are days I wonder.

I think about all my years in journalism and wonder how I managed to track down stories and sources without the internet.

Thank you to newspaper “morgues” with news clips from years ago. There was a permanence to them that I don’t feel with online archives. Thank you to libraries, and bless the telephone, the phone book and city directories as well as my personal and sacred collection of phone numbers and addresses built over the years.

People were the ultimate connection. They led to other people. They all had stories to tell. They still do, but now many are slideshows too easily found online. They often don’t seem real. It is still important to knock on doors.

How did we do it? How did we get things done? I’ve heard others ask the same thing

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