Editorial cartoonist Ben Sargent once penned a masterful sketch of a newspaperman — a skinny, bug-eyed fellow in a baggy suit with a press card in the band of his porkpie hat.

One of my uncles was an alcoholic. Actually there were two of my mother’s brothers who were addicted to alcohol. 

Hello Frio! My name is Duke, and I live in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I have seen pictures of you in the Bee-Picayune along with your columns. I look just like you, with orange and white stripes, but my fur’s a little lighter colored, and I have a little more heft… ok fine, I’m pretty chubby. A…

Writers face, at different times, something called, writer’s block. Writer’s block is that mental condition when the writer cannot start, further or finish their writing. 

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