Like my mother-in-law always told me

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home.</p><p id="b2c5">They are refreshing. They have a personality. Sometimes they are just a hoot.</p><p id="9ce5">I, being a news junkie, frequently watch the evening television newscasts. I notice that with many reporters, and especially the newer ones, there is a tendency to put on their “announcer voice” when the video starts to roll.</p><p id="3bca">I know it is supposed to sound more dramatic, but I also know it is quite automatic and a bit unintended by newer people. It may be years before they can realize that it sounds unnatural and can relax enough to lose the “Walter Cronkite Syndrome.”</p><p id="0699">That’s a long way to say the writers I enjoy most are not obviously trying to be writers, they are themselves. They have their own voice and personality. They just write, too, coincidentally.</p><p

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id="7f8e">They are a part of the family.</p><p id="d4ed">I only hope that my writing can become disciplined enough to seem like a note from an old friend.</p><div id="7c6d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/@donmartin711/membership"> <div> <div> <h2>Join Medium with my referral link - Don Martin</h2> <div><h3>As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*eHDKk_1l9DvP3wNo)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Don, you’re the best thing that ever happened to this family!

There is a handful, or maybe fewer writers today that are always welcome in my inbox. Their letters will always be read first by me and read as quickly as I am aware of their existence.

These peeps are not only good writers, but it goes deeper than that. Their emails are a bit like welcome letters from home.

They are refreshing. They have a personality. Sometimes they are just a hoot.

I, being a news junkie, frequently watch the evening television newscasts. I notice that with many reporters, and especially the newer ones, there is a tendency to put on their “announcer voice” when the video starts to roll.

I know it is supposed to sound more dramatic, but I also know it is quite automatic and a bit unintended by newer people. It may be years before they can realize that it sounds unnatural and can relax enough to lose the “Walter Cronkite Syndrome.”

That’s a long way to say the writers I enjoy most are not obviously trying to be writers, they are themselves. They have their own voice and personality. They just write, too, coincidentally.

They are a part of the family.

I only hope that my writing can become disciplined enough to seem like a note from an old friend.