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When Metal Detecting Becomes Tabloid Worthy…

  • January 8, 2018

Last week, I received an email from a writer at The Sun. He wanted to feature me in an upcoming article--This Article. I'm American. I had never heard of The Sun. I did what any clueless millennial would do, I asked Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia--the expert on everything, ask any millennial--"The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom..." Now, I've taken a class or two on journalism, so I'm familiar with the textbook definition of tabloid. As a matter of fact, I think anyone who has stood in a supermarket line behind a coupon-wielding grandma is familiar with the term....

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Digging with my Dig Partner

  • March 30, 2016

In season one of BBC’s The Detectorists (spoiler alert), Andy and Lance end up in quite the dispute when Andy decides to dig with Sophie. A big no-no! While I haven’t been detecting as long as many others, I completely related to this moment. (My husband often tells me I laugh way more than anyone should during that show, but that’s neither here nor there.) The point is, once you have a dig partner, a.k.a. my husband, it’s almost imperative that you dig with them and only them. This may not be true of every digging partnership, but there’s almost something sacred and special about it. You question...

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