Fingerlakes1.com Menu Gabe is the National News Editor and works out of Washington, D.C. Have a tip? Send it to gabe@fingerlakes1.com. On the Ground With Gabe is a FingerLakes1.com blog that “takes you behind the headlines, practices, techniques and ethics of all things journalism.” Today is Mother’s Day, and I couldn’t ever thank my mother enough for kick starting my career in journalism — more than anyone else in my life. It was a frigid winter day in Seneca Falls. Snow kept falling from the sky. My mother and I were driving back to the Finger Lakes following a fairly short winter break after my Fall semester ended at Hobart & William Smith Colleges.