Just a taste of the most interesting job in the world

It is impossible to describe the things that go on at a weekly newspaper with a small staff on deadline day.

Decisions must be made on everything from what goes on the front page to which photo best represents an event and how to handle certain letters-to-the-editor. People must be contacted, different people must be contacted when the first people are not available, stories must be written, photos must be found, cut-lines must be tweaked, breaking news dealt with, headlines made to fit while still representing the story, changes to page size managed, proofing carefully done even when there's a hurry, I could go on.

Likewise, there's nothing to compare with the feeling when it all comes together, and it works.

And if it's not perfect after that, we can know we did absolutely everything we could with the time, the people and the resources that we had.

And then we'll do it again next week.