Like so many of my “blogging buddies” from days gone by,
social media has all but killed my blogging efforts. The lack of creative writing on my behalf is
truly a shame, but that being said, I feel far more “connected” now than I did even
at the height of my “career” as a serious blogger. Strange days…
One of my few remaining outlets for writing has been our local “alternative newspaper” The Hometown Focus. It’s a wonderful publication full of local news that spotlights relevant economic issues, covers the arts and entertainment scene in the area, and gives voice to a wide variety of guest columnists….including ME.
Around the time that I graduated from high school in
Virginia Minnesota, our school had an incredibly strong English department, and
a significant number of the students who passed through that program are still
writing today…many professionally. One
of my classmates has chiseled out a second career for herself as freelance
writer focusing on topics related both to mental health and women in the
outdoors, and she recently decided to make me the subject of one of her
interviews over the course of which she focused on the different approaches that she and I take with regard to outdoor adventures. Her ice fishing rig is pictured in the bottom half of the photo...below Lucy the Lab 'n me. ;-)
