After being snowed in for the last couple of days, I am going through serious newspaper withdrawal. We live out in the country and the newspaper carriers couldn't get through the snow to deliver our newspaper Thursday and Friday.

It's really hard to go two days without a newspaper - if you are a newspaper junkie like me. Sure I listened to the radio and TV news, but it's not the same. TV and radio can only give you a snippet of what would be included in a newspaper article.

On the upside, though, it was fun to watch the local TV newscasts as they showed reports sent in by viewers on the scene of weather incidents. It was a lot of fun to watch as one viewer interviewed some motorists who slid off the highway and got stuck in the snow.

I liked seeing the appreciation the professional journalists showed as they aired the citizen journalists' reports. They appreciated having information from people on the scene. Professional journalists can't be everywhere. And, when you have a snow event like Denver had this week, it truly is fabulous and informative to have reports from citizens throughout the metro area.