Full disclosure: I've never been to Mars. But, on a recent visit to St. Jude, I wore a head-to-toe sterile suit not unlike one worn by Matt Damon in "The Martian" and felt a bit like I had visited another planet.
A typical Thursday for a journalist starts with coffee – and news: Catching up on the big stories of the day, then looking for fresh story ideas of my own. On Thursday, March 7, my day started off at 8 a.m. with coffee at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for a "Media Immersion…