Comments on: Doug Thompson could (still) use your thoughts and prayers UPDATED

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:50:24 +0000

He’s in my prayers.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:47:34 +0000

So is there any news on this man?

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:37:30 +0000

Doug was a Kingbreaker in an age where the media considers themselves Kingmakers. I remember Doug from the Clinton years when he laid the roadbed for sites like the Huffington Post.
People on FreeRepublic are remembering him fondly tonight. We fought with him and later against him but we always respected him.

By: Danny Adams

Danny Adams — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:16:23 +0000

Prayers and good thoughts, Doug–Here’s hoping you’ll be back on BRM and Capitol Hill Blue in no time!

By: don

don — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:09:03 +0000

Our prayers are certainly with Doug. We are so happy about the good news about Zack Foutz . The Foutz family are such wonderful people. We have been friends with them a long time. Our church has been praying for Zack.

By: Shrillary

Shrillary — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:31:15 +0000

Thanks Bob Stepno for the links – Mr Thompson seems to be we quite a wonderful storyteller. His story about his Mom was quite moving and easy to relate to for those of us with aging parents.

I hope his recovery is swift and complete.

By: Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:07:10 +0000

I’m hoping he recovers to write another “Someone was watching over me…” piece, which is what he titled one after a close encounter with a deer last year. This time it should be about the irony of writing about preparing to put his bike in the shop for a 100,000-mile tuneup and titling the piece “How many miles to go before I sleep?” (He followed it up Friday with another item — about his new iPhone as a viable photojournalism tool.)

Doug has a pretty full autobio on http://dougthompson.com at
http://www.dougthompson.com/about-blue-ridge-muse
closing with, “Despite his work in new media, Thompson remains a newspaperman at heart and lives by the creed that it is the role of a newspaperman to ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’”

He wrote an amazing story about his mother and her history with motorcycles. She passed away in August: A life well lived

Doug has been a serial journalist/blogger, writing and shooting stills and video for the Floyd Press, his BlueRidgeMuse.com blog, CapitolHillBlue.com and more than one motorcycle-related site.

For Veterans Day, you might point to this piece of his:
http://www.roanokevalleyhog.com/node/17

By: dave

dave — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:58:23 +0000

Here’s wishing him a speedy recovery.

On the good news front, Zack Foutz, the Cave Spring athlete who contracted meningitis from the contaminated steroid injection seems to be on the way to recovery. Good wishes and prayers for him also.