What should I do? CONFLICTED!
After spending 40+ years writing every week for some media publication, whether it be a local newspaper, agriculture publication or for my church, it's time to hang it up. At least I think so. I am conflicted. For a while now, after calling my own tune for more years than I care to count, I am thinking of getting out of the newspaper article ratrace. The reason I'm conflicted? I don't want to let my community down. For the past 40 years I have run to one event after another, including covering high school sports, giving up many things I'd really like to do. I've missed some family things, some church things, and even some personal events, so that I could write about happenings in the Newell, Vale and Nisland area. To be clear, I've also received a lot of joy from the job as a freelance journalist. And, since I live and work in a small community, pretty much everyone knows me, even if I can't put a name to their faces. (Smile) And to be sure, I've got n...
