You can always start over, writers. Press reset. In muddy places (where you’re pushing the car thru mud and it moves an inch and slides back), I move to a different writing spot. Take a walk. Cups of tea. Just don’t get online! That’s the flaming pit.
— Mary Karr
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David Phinney is a reporter's reporter. He's worked for ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Phinney's stories on unfair labor practices and poor treatment of foreign workers contracted to do construction work in Iraq have been the subject of congressional inquiries, ongoing US Justice Department criminal probes and investigations by U.S. Inspectors General. He's on his way to Ukraine and sending news to the Journal via Twitter.
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