Are You Missing Any Clips?

I am very meticulous about saving my magazine clips, but there is one I missed and it still bothers me to this day. I did an article for Llamas Magazine back in the late 1980s, and although they paid me they never sent contributors' copies. I never managed to get my hands on that issue, so I never got to see the piece in print. I'm not even sure of the exact month and year it appeared anymore since my records from that period are long gone.

I also missed some of the articles from when I was a news stringer, but that doesn't bother me because those were boring articles anyway (how do you make a village board meeting exciting?). But for some reason, missing a magzine article really bugs me.

They apparently ceased publication, but I will try Nexis-Lexis. I'd like to at least see it just for old time's sake. I'll admit that I'm a bit of an obsessive when it comes to my clips and I know why too...the reason makes no sense anymore, but I still indulge the quirk. With my husband's help, I've been moving them to digital copies anyway so they're easy to email to editors. Scanners are wonderful things!

If things get to fire hazard status, I'll probably pitch my newspaper clips. I have waaaaay too many of those and they're nothing I'd really use nowadays.