Soaking it all in

  This year marks my 15 th year of employment with the Coastal Courier and also my last. I was recently blessed with a job offer up here in Chattanooga and felt it was time I planted a new foundation in the community where I now live and hope to serve. The decision was a difficult one to make, but it feels right. There are countless people I want to thank. But I know that if I try to name each one, it would take too many pages to fill and inevitably I might leave someone out by accident. I started at the Courier as a receptionist and was mentored and taught everything by all the great people who worked there before, and some who still do. I worked hard each day and grew as a writer, reporter, magazine editor, sports writer, story-teller, photographer and all-around journalist. I will really miss everyone. The folks in Liberty County and the newspaper are all like family to me. I was new to the area when I first started at the Courier in 2006. But the staff and the community were w