Advice from a small town girl

I think I’ll poke a little fun at the editor this week. Really, I’m poking fun at myself, but I’m disguising it.

Every once in a while, I forget to write my own headline for this column. That’s the first mistake.

Then I read what the editor supplied. That’s the second mistake.

It’s not the editor’s fault, you know. If I could just remember to go back to the top of the page before that final save and the email to The Record.

If I could just figure out what the heck I was writing about that week (because most weeks I just make it up as I go along.)

As near as I can tell, even though I’m usually...