Lee Hill Kavanaugh:
Her phone rings at 10 p.m. The voice on the other end is quiet, uncertain.
I just got picked up by the police. … Do you hate me?
Donnette Siems takes a deep breath and looks down at Victoria’s baby cradled in her lap.
Maddie. Seven pounds of hope.
Big eyes and silky curls. A near copy [...]

Lee in an e-mail:
I asked the managing editor if I could start a writing group here. He said he was all for it. Said that the mood has been so down here, with editors overworked due to lay offs and additional editing responsibilities. “In the end, it’s good stories that will either save us or [...]

Lee Hill Kavanaugh: “My joy is hanging out.”

The Kansas City Star’s Lee Hill Kavanaugh, who in a former professional life played the bass trombone on cruise ships in the Caribbean, said last night here in Livingston Manor that the one somehow led to the other.
She met Chinese men who worked below the water line in the laundry. She met English women who [...]

At our table: Vac, Pete, Lee, Barbara, me and Janine. Janine, who incidentally double-majored at the University of Wisconsin in journalism and dance, got to talking about the story she’s working on here this weekend.
This is what she wrote in her workshop proposal:
For the past three years I have had a growing stack of papers [...]

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]