If you picked up a Sunday paper and flipped to the business section you would have seen the article that I wrote about funerals and how Baby Boomers are using technology in the funeral business. While writing this story, it really got me thinking. I mean this story really got into my head. What is my generation doing when it comes to being prepared for death?

This morning I was given an assignment to drive to a home in Eastern Henrico County where police had surrounded the house and detained a 16-year-old girl with the EXACT same name as a 19-year-old wanted along with two other males in the murder of a teenager in Powhatan County. Police say they used an AK-47 to shoot the victim and another victim who was injured.

Being in a newsroom is like being at a Star Trek convention.

My full name is Stefanie Lutz. Just Stefanie. Lutz. I was born with no middle name. I never had any problems with this (besides the middle initial line on forms), until middle school. On our gym shorts was a blank box where we were supposed to write our first initial and our last name. I didn’t realize the problem until half way through the semester: slutz. It followed me to high school as my username. I couldn’t escape Slutz.