I just did a mental inventory of my contemporaries from the old Indianapolis News and came to the conclusion that I am the only one still writing for a newspaper on a regular basis.
It certainly wasn't by design. When I took early retirement from The Indianapolis Star in October of 2000, I figured I was done with newspapers.
But then I married a newspaperwoman 19 years my junior who dragged me out of retirement to write and shoot photos for the Crawfordsville Journal Review, the Jonesboro (Ark.) Sun and more recently the Lebanon Reporter.
I can't complain because I've been able to play newspaper and see my byline in print on a regular basis, but pretty much on my own terms.
Who knew that the callow youth shown here around 1967 would still be an active journalist 51 years later?
Here's my Thorntown Community Christmas Party package on the front page of today's Reporter.
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