As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I got my knickers in a twist over an article in the Ottawa Citizen that threatened to cut bus service to my end of suburbia, so I cranked out a letter to the editor.
They ran my letter this morning, and a picture to go along with it. Can I take a minute to say how much I hate being edited? (Yet more reasons to love blog.) Oh well, it’s still fun to be published. My only real complaint is that I ended my letter with “if it ain’t broke…” and they finished the axiom for me by adding the “don’t fix it.” Just makes it seem more trite, IMHO. They also changed a couple of key words, and even changed the intro where I originally mentioned the bus I was riding was the bus they were talking about cutting — it sounds like I make it a habit of reading the morning paper out loud to the other people on the bus just for fun.
Funny how just a few changes can alter the tone of it ever so slightly… or maybe it’s having had a few days to cool down that reading my own letter gives me the impression I come off as a bit of a lunatic? I think I’ll stick to blog from now on. Until the next time I get my knickers in a twist…
Dani
No matter what they do to your letters keep them going. It’s lunatics like us that make things chagne for the better or stop things that could be wrong.
Keep them knickers twisten and keep on writin’
😉
Oh BTW great Picture.
Whoo hoo! Letter and a photo. Edits be damned, I think it’s great!
Jen
Sexy photo!!!! Too bad you aren’t pleased with the editing, but at least you are (once again) successfully published. Another one to add to your credentials of fame. You already know this, but I am a BIG fan of yours. xo
Thanks, chickies. You are kind and sweet as always. Personally, I wish they would have chosen a photo that made me look more like a MILF and less like someone who just ate lemons, but what the heck.
Nancy, we could take all day in a mutual admiration society and you know it!! xo
Silvercreek Mom, I wanted to read your blog but the link doesn’t work. Is it published?
xo Danigirl
I saw it! It was fine. Good pic too. As a fellow Ottawan and former bus rider I totally feel your pain.