CCJ Traveling Curriculum trainer and contributing writer Tracy Thompson is a former Washington Post and Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter and the author of two books:  The Beast: A Journey Through Depression and The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, and Struggling with Depression. She blogs regularly here.

• Why Tweeting is For the Birds: The World is Way Too Much With Us
  March 2, 2009

• In Defense of Weeping: It's My Country, I'll Cry If I Want To
  Nov. 10, 2008

• An Unasked Question in the Fiscal Crisis: What Were They Thinking?
  Oct. 5, 2008

• We Have Met the Copy Editor, and He is Now Us, The Reporters
  Sept. 8, 2008

• When LIfe's Twists and Turns Become the Stuff of Book Tours                                                                                                              Aug. 1, 2008

• Obama, McCain are Martian Spies! Time to Tune-up Your Spaminator
  July 8, 2008

• Journalists & Bloggers: Mutual Incomprehension
  June 13, 2008   

• Miss Pettigrew Vents For a Day
  May 2, 2008

• Conflict and Conflation of Race and Gender
  March 28, 2008

• Ethically Challenged
  March 6, 2008

• What's Important
  Feb. 8, 2008

• The Audacity of One
  Jan. 6, 2008

• Modest Proposal
  Dec. 6, 2007

• Changing Times
  Nov. 7, 2007

• Did He Really Just Say That?
  Oct. 4, 2007

• Passion for Journalism
  Sept. 5, 2007

• Learning from Our Mistakes
  Aug. 6, 2007