Getting it done
Thanks to Katie McLaughlin, a grad student in women's studies at Towson University, and Gabe Dinsmore, a junior at Goucher College, for coming to the Sun citry room today to help me catch up on inmate mail and phone calls from ex-offenders looking for employment. They're occupying two desks and answering the mail and phone-in requests for our ex-offender info packet.
The phone rings at my desk every day, mostly calls from ex-offenders looking for help finding a job, and it's hard for me to keep up in responses. That's I am having a "catch up" day at The Sun today.
At least for a time -- the better part of three years -- Darryl Logan felt appreciated, productive and normal again. He was the subject of a recent column, and his story shows what can be done -- one man, one woman at a time -- if those of us who can step up to help actually do so, on a direct, personal level. Be a mentor, listen, share your wisdom and common sense. . . . Darryl stopped using and cleaned up, he got a job, he became a reliable worker and he stepped out of the ranks of Baltimore's problem children. A generous old friend from high school helped him, but that's what it takes -- one man, one woman at a time. . . .
