Last August, I learned that my staff had won a first place Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award. This August, after some bureaucratic snafus and a mailing mishap that left the first trophy a shattered mess, we got the replacement.
When I pulled it out of the box, I found myself paraphrasing Chief Brody in “Jaws”: “We’re gonna need a bigger trophy case.”
Click on this photo from Twitpic to see it more clearly. It’s half my size!