POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Journalists are gypsies by nature. To get good stories, we have to be peripatetic, willing to go anywhere, talk to anyone. Too often, we serve hard time in far-flung places, straining our personal relationships and eating rotten, unfamiliar food. We do...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It was a few days before I was scheduled to pull up stakes and leave North Carolina for Utah. I was in the gym for my usual workout, saying goodbye to friends, when Mark wandered by. I don’t know his last name—gyms are like that. I did know...