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Weekly reflections from this local editor about life as a writer, a journalist and a mom.
As a journalist, I am not used to being on the other side of questions. Yet that’s where I found myself last Friday, when I visited a young reporters’ club at the Barnegat Library. Youth Services Librarian Lisa Taylor organized the club around the children’s book character of Geronimo Stilton, who is a mouse and a reporter. Through exploration of the mouse’s adventures, Taylor decided to educate young people grades 2 through 5 on the profession of a journalist, and invited me as a speaker. Taylor and the kids have been working on listening skills, map-reading skills and learning to ask …

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