For someone who writes hundreds, if not thousands, of words a day, I sat down to write this profile with a massive case of writer’s block.
Do I thank my parents for their support and encouragement of a career that has caused me — and by extension, them — endless amounts of stress and exposure to the worst of humanity?
Do I write a love letter to the job that has given me the most amazing group of coworkers who became friends who are now family?
Do I forgo trying to write something like my colleagues have done in this space and do a basic question and answer?
Do I pretend I forgot the assignment and just not do it?
That last one sounded pretty good, but giving up easily isn’t in my nature.
If I gave up the first time someone told me I couldn’t get the information I was looking for, I would never be able to do the reporting I have during my six years at The Dispatch and my nearly six years before that at The Newark Advocate.
But instead of boring you with the story of how I became a reporter, here’s a few things you may not know about me and my role as our courts reporter. I previously covered police and crime.