From Panic to Purpose
November 3, 2011
by Kim Childs, CPPC It was 7:05 a.m. on Thanksgiving eve, 1997. I was anchoring a public radio newscast in Newark, New Jersey, as I’d done every morning for months, when the music host left the studio to grab more CDs. Alone with the microphone and a million listeners, I became aware of a sinister thought. It told me that I was about to blurt something outrageous over the air. I pushed down this thought and kept reading, “Mayor Giuliani…