For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Charles KuraltI would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
Charles KuraltMy mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
Charles KuraltI was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
Charles Kuralt