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I have shared with you already my thoughts about my annoying penchant of stressing the negative and pushing aside the positive aspects of a career I enjoyed for 37 years.<\/p>\n

I vowed in an earlier blog post that I would seek to look with fondness at a career in daily journalism that gave me much more joy than sadness. Yeah, the sadness at the end of that career stung, but it’s over now. I am a happy fellow, enjoying retirement with my wife and our puppy named Toby.<\/p>\n

So, with that I want to announce the start of a recurring feature on this blog. I want to share with you some of the particular events I was privileged to see up close, some of the remarkable things I was able to do, and some of the amazing individuals with whom I had contact during my modestly successful career.<\/p>\n

It won’t be an overly frequent<\/em> feature, but I’ll bring some of these things up when the spirit moves me, or when I lack more topical subjects on which to comment.<\/p>\n

I’ve already introduced a couple of such recurring features: Puppy Tales and Happy Trails. You know what they cover. This one I’ll call Time of My Life.<\/p>\n

I will ask only thing of you: Understand that I never once saw myself as anyone’s “enemy,” certainly not an “enemy of the American people.” I was just one of many young people who came of age in the early 1970s seeking to make a difference in the community we called home. I clashed a time or two with elected public officials, but in the end they all seemed to understand that I was just doing my job, just as they were doing theirs.<\/p>\n

I am likely to share some of those clashes with you. I do not intend to portray myself as the “good guy” and the person with whom I butted heads as the “bad guy.” That’s just one element of this series.<\/p>\n

The rest of it will seek to relay to you how much dadgum fun<\/em> I had pursuing a craft that at times seemed to define me. The fun started in Oregon, my home state and continued through two communities in Texas, in Beaumont and then in Amarillo.<\/p>\n

I was fond of telling people after I became an editorial writer, editor and columnist that I had the “best job in the world.”<\/em> Why? Because I was allowed to foist my opinions on thousands of people every day.<\/p>\n

Can it be any more fun than that?<\/p>\n\n

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