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I'm a lifelong journalist who most recently covered real estate for The Wall Street Journal, and I still write an occasional freelance piece for the paper. Previously I was the deputy business editor at Newsday on Long Island, N.Y., and the features editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

I grew up in a small farm town in Kansas working for my parents, who owned competing hardware stores next door to each other on Main Street. At 18, I left home to earn a journalism degree at the University of Kansas but continued to hold hardware close to my heart.

Check out my Substack, a free- and ad-free blog devoted to hardware and to indie store owners who keep small towns chugging along.

Today I live in the mountains of western South Carolina, wher ...more

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