I don't know whether other reporters feel this way, but I almost always have a slight wave of fear in my gut when I know someone has read or watched or listened to a story I wrote about them. Did I misquote them, take them out of context, portray them fairly? Of course reporters want to be fair all the time, but sometimes we're not.

Last December, when I wrote about a convicted fraud expert and former meth addict, (Lisa is not her real name; she continues to work with the DA's office) I asked whether anyone could ever trust her again. Would someone give Lisa a job when for more than a decade she supported her drug habit by stealing mail and stealing identities. "How can you believe someone who was so good at fooling everyone? . . . I hope she finds her way. But I wonder what great leap of faith it will take for someone to trust a thief," I wrote months ago.

Lisa read that blog post and she wrote to me a couple weeks ago:

"I remember in your article that you wrote about me online and in it you talk about how can I get people to trust me, well Ms. Faryon I think that I am accomplishing it. Life is so GOOD!!"