A few years ago, after leaving a\u00a0career in local government public affairs, I\u00a0embarked on\u00a0a new career\u00a0as a freelance journalist. In April 2011 I began writing a\u00a0weekly column on local issues for AOL’s Leesburg Patch.\u00a0Before long\u00a0I\u00a0was also writing news stories and taking photos\u00a0that appeared in\u00a0Leesburg Patch and\u00a0Ashburn Patch.<\/p>\n
In March 2012, I began writing and taking photos for the Loudoun Extra and Local Living sections of the Washington Post, and later began covering stories in Prince William and Fairfax counties for the Post, as well. Occasionally, I have a story in the Post’s Travel, Real Estate or Metro sections.<\/p>\n
It gradually occurred to me that I was developing a “body of work,” such as it is, and that it would be useful to create centralized place to collect\u00a0these news stories and columns.<\/p>\n
This was my motivation for recreating this blog — Notes n Letters — where I may also occasionally go off on my own from time to time and write about things that interest me, but which may not have\u00a0a home in the commercial news media.<\/p>\n
Thank you for your interest!<\/p>\n
— Jim Barnes, freelance writer based in Leesburg, Va.<\/p>\n
Note: Photos used on this site have not\u00a0previously been published elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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