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You are likely aware that a move is in our future. We’ll be departing Amarillo — our home for more than 20 years — for an undetermined location somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.<\/p>\n

I’ve made you aware as well of our desire to live near our beautiful, precious granddaughter.\u00a0Our friends tell us, “That’s the best reason I can think of” to make such a big change in our lives.<\/p>\n

But there’s this slight quandary that has nothing to do with our granddaughter. It has everything to do with this blog.<\/p>\n

What am I going to call it?<\/p>\n

I came up with “High Plains Blogger” because (a) our location here on the High Plains of Texas and (b)\u00a0I am a big Clint Eastwood fan and the title of the blog reminds me of “High Plains Drifter.”<\/p>\n

I wrote an item earlier in which I suggested I might keep the name in spite of our relocation. I’m leaning farther away from that option.<\/p>\n

I’ve actually come up\u00a0with a potential, possible<\/em> name for this collection of musings. I’m a bit reluctant to tell you now<\/em> what it is. I think I’ll wait just a little while.<\/p>\n

My intention is to have the title reflect the nature of the blog, which is to provide me a forum to share my view of politics and public policy. I want to share my own acknowledged bias.<\/p>\n

My quandary over the name change is heightened just a bit because “High Plains Blogger” has gained some traction with those who read these posts regularly. I don’t want the blog to lose that traction. I am afraid of “spinning my wheels.”<\/p>\n

I am grateful for those who comment positively on the opinions I share in this blog. I also am grateful for the critics<\/em> who keep me humble. I expressed that gratitude for critics repeatedly during my lengthy career in daily print journalism.<\/p>\n

Retirement has taken me in its embrace. I am enjoying the time I get to spend writing this blog.<\/p>\n

It’s just this name-change thing that’s giving me a bit of heartburn. I’ll get over it.<\/p>\n\n

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You are likely aware that a move is in our future. We’ll be departing Amarillo — our home for more than 20 years — for an undetermined location somewhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. I’ve made you aware as well of our desire to live near our beautiful, precious granddaughter.\u00a0Our friends tell us, “That’s the … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 18<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2122,3920],"class_list":["post-21666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21669,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions\/21669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}