Hop's Blog
Description: Gabrielle David of Ajo, Arizona, USA. Editor, cat lover
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What?? I'm a cat lover first & foremost. I can't remember a time when I didn't have a cat in my life. At the moment, I'm owned by Ralph, Fred, Alice, Jane, Ricky, Mary, Judith, Claude, and Lilah Marie , a clowder who keep the house well covered with discarded fur. They aren't the only animals in my life, though. There are the dogs -- Bruno, Chuy, and visting corgi Naru -- plus assorted turtles and fish. They all demand, and sometimes get, their fair share of my attention.
I'm al so a newspaper editor. In 1983, I succeeded my mother as editor of the Ajo Copper News , a small rural weekly in southwestern Arizona, and also took over her column "Quacks". I run the paper with my brother Hop, who stepped into our father's shoes as publisher. Our brother Joe managed to escape for many years but is now retired from his job in Alabama and back on the newspaper staff. I sometimes wonder if we own the newspaper, or if it owns us.
My second job, until recently, was a s a paramedic. I got started late -- I didn't become an EMT until 1991 when I was in my forties. I worked two days a week for Ajo Ambulance , a non-profit company I helped start, until the summer of 2012 when sad circumstance dictated I retire from the field. It was hard work, frequently dirty and often thankless, but I enjoyed it. I wish I could still do it.
Hop's Blog