“I’d like to work for a couple more years and then maybe work part-time at a bookstore.” “I am looking forward to not being in journalism forever,” she said. Whether it’s about a child celebrating their birthday during a pandemic, not allowed to have friends over and finding a way to still make the day theirs, or a young man who took multiple jobs so he could afford Christmas presents for his siblings while their mom was ill, Kubick writes in a way that highlights humanity in others and in Lincoln.īut, as time moves forward in its never ceasing motion, Kubick knows that her career writing for the Journal Star is nearing its end. Just from going outside and observing the world around her, a story can be found. Having written somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 stories, one might think the well of ideas Kubick has has run dry, but that is far from the case. “Sometimes you do things that hurt people and those stay with you. “There’s people that situationally you write about and you remember,” Kubick said. She remembers it as one of the most impactful stories she has written in her two decades of reporting. They became very close during their time spent together. Kubick accompanied her to treatments and spent long nights and days at her side. Some stories she found fun and lighthearted to write about, like her Lincoln Clockwise series, others more serious, adding that the story she wrote about a woman with cancer, a woman she grew to have a deep friendship with, took six months to write. “You have to be able to tell a story, to be able to interview, and know how to listen.” Then, in 1997, she became a columnist, allowing her to focus on the people of Lincoln whom she found particularly interesting or felt needed a light shined on them. Her beats included restaurants, theater, arts and environment. This started her longtime position as a reporter.īeing a reporter granted her a lot of opportunities to write about things that piqued her interest. Not yet deterred, however, an editor called her over a part-time position in 1994. What makes people do what they do.” Cindy Lange-Kubick encourages young journalists: “If that’s your heart’s desire, go for it,” she said.Īfter long nights dedicated to research, papers and various assignments, her application for an internship at the Lincoln Journal Star was turned down. “I was a novice in journalism,” she said, “But I gravitated toward people stories. As an untraditional student – being out of the normal age bracket of students – Kubick chose two fields in which she shared equal passion: Journalism and sociology, and in doing so, she found a way to combine the two, eventually becoming a columnist for The Daily Nebraskan, UNL’s student newspaper. So began her six years as a Husker at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Describing it as a “period of winter of discontent or depression,” Kubick knew she wanted to go back to college. But, in her early 20s as someone with a love of work, being a stay-at-home mom took a toll on her eventually. As she speaks of her children in both the present and past, you can hear the love and passion in her voice and can almost sense the smile she wears. She got married, had kids and became a stay-at-home mom. Not soon after, however, her life took an unexpected turn. Initially, as someone with a warm heart and loads of compassion for everyone she meets, Kubick’s plan was to go to Southeast Community College for human services, looking to work in special education. Living in Lincoln all of her life, Kubick’s took multiple paths, all of which she had immense passion and drive for, before finding the one that led to her being a reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star since 1994. Writing has always been something of an interest, a hobby even, for her, but it took her a while to realize exactly what she wanted. It had an endless number of opportunities.” “It was something I had on the back burner for some time,” Kubick said. to 12 p.m., she wrote one article about each location and the experience she had and dubbed it Lincoln Clockwise, and it ran in her usual column in the Lincoln Journal Star. So, for nearly a month in 2009, she went to 24 different locations in Lincoln that she would want to spend an hour at for every hour of the day. before many people rise from their beds.įor Lincoln Journal Star columnist Cindy Lange-Kubick, this had been an idea she wanted to write for a while. Maybe a nice dinner at a local restaurant at 8 p.m., or perhaps occupying a comfy coffee house chair at 4 a.m. A different setting for each hour of the day, and a new perspective on how those measly 24 hours could be spent in 24 places. The clock ticks away at the early hours of the morning, each jerky movement of the minute hand counting down to the end of another hour, and with it, the end of time spent at yet another location.
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