He did a masterful job. I see my reporting and writing everywhere, but somehow it's transformed by his editing from a guy trying to sound like a reporter to one who actually does.

Mark really is amazingly good at what he does.

One problem: big piece is missing from original text, so we're talking about how to re-insert. Question of size. Sits at just over 6,200 now and we're talking a big graphic element, so this is an issue way beyond my pay-grade.

Feel so much better now that I see it. I was sweating this one a lot. Very hard to do justice to all the reporting, much less the topic, but I think we're getting what needs to be gotten: the essence of the dynamics, rendered in narrative.

It's weird, but with each reported story (already I consider the next one now that the scary part of the labor is over and the baby's out and breathing) I get so much better at the gathering and anguish so much more over the writing.

I imagine this is a standard evolution.