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I am happy to announce that I have turned the corner, put aside the wellspring of anger related to the end of my career in daily journalism.<\/p>\n

Many of you know by now that my career came to a sudden halt in August 2012 when I got reorganized<\/em> out of my job as editorial page editor of the Amarillo (Texas) Globe-News. I thought<\/em> I was doing a pretty good job there, spending nearly 18 years crafting an editorial policy at a newspaper committed to commenting on events of the city and the region that surrounds it.<\/p>\n

Silly me. That’s what I get for thinking<\/em>, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I was hurt when it occurred. I was able to carry on, though, thanks to loads of support and love from my wife, my sons, my sisters and my friends.<\/p>\n

Quite suddenly, though, I find myself no longer filled with anger or hurt feelings. It took a long while to get past it all. It has occurred.<\/p>\n

I feel quite relieved that I am not packing that emotional baggage around any longer.<\/p>\n

The company that owned the Globe-News, Morris Communications, sold its entire newspaper group to Gatehouse Media, which then brought in a new management team. The publisher who pushed me out the door “stepped down” from his job and is now pursuing “other interests.” He’s been replaced by someone I do not know.<\/p>\n

The fellow who assumed my post at the G-N has left to work elsewhere. His successor and I have actually forged a bit of a relationship.<\/p>\n

And you know what? I have actually wished the new “director of commentary,” Doug Hensley, well as he seeks to keep the Globe-News afloat in the roiling and changing media water. He pledges he will do his best. I hope he succeeds.<\/p>\n

In the interest of full disclosure, Hensley was kind enough to publish an essay I had posted originally on High Plains Blogger, so that helped thaw the deep freeze I felt toward the newspaper.<\/p>\n

However, it is true that I no longer harbor the anger that at times got the better of me over the nearly seven years since I departed the newspaper business.<\/p>\n

I am enjoying retirement. I am enjoying writing this blog. I have relocated to a new community and my wife and I are enjoying our new home.<\/p>\n

I don’t have time to be angry.<\/p>\n

How cool is that?<\/p>\n\n

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