sisters are complicated...

Another segment of the Gloria story ran on Saturday. Again, a great job by the Jerry the columnist and our photographer. It isn't easy getting these packages ready so quickly. Our last piece was 2 weeks ago. It also isn't easy having a photographer and columnist enter your life for an undisclosed amount of time that wants to spend as much time with you as possible. The family has been pretty good so far, considering they have so many things going on at once. But you must wonder, will we exhaust them by running these stories so close together? Will our journalists get burnt out as well? And what about our readers? Sure, some of them are following with intense interest---but you wonder how many of them don't?

The other part of this story that was difficult was the columnist says how close the 3 sisters are even though they have the typical sister issues. However, every time our photographer has been there the sisters haven't all been together. So, we had lots of dicussions about how to play the pictures. At one point we were going to run seperate pictures of all three girls on the cover. But after talking to the photographer in depth about it, we both felt like that would be stereotyping the girls into specific categories. (the oldest teenager, the middle sick child and the younger free sister). It also felt like we were forcing the issue. This is how it ended up running. I feel as though it is a bit more natural pairing. My only wish is that the secondary pictures inside ran a little bigger.