Recharging with Letters to the Editor
We’re on deadline. Annie, Lenie, Lisa, Rhoda, and Silveira are doing most of the work, but the task of arranging and answering Letters to the Editor always falls to me.
I enjoy doing it, even though it is a lengthy process due to the volume of letters we get. The letters had to be sorted down to the three pages Annie allotted in this issue. I always start out slow reading them, then get charged up as I see the passion in how our readers view BHM. I restrict myself to answering only a few, as I think injecting myself too much is inappropriate.
By the time I’m finished with the letters, which I did just a few minutes ago, I am fired up. BHM is appreciated by its readers, and I have to make sure its quality stays high. That’s a responsibility Annie has largely taken on, but it is still my responsibility too.
As has been the case for the last 20 years, we are woefully behind making the deadline for this issue. But we’ll get there. Thank God I don’t have to do the job anymore of editing the rest of the magazine.
I’ll write my editorial for the issue in the next day or two, while I’m taking my son, Robby, and his friend, Matt, to Klamath Falls for a two-day golf tournament. That’s where my heart is — in youth golf and the life lessons it teaches. But I’ve got my editorial in my head — just got to get it on paper.
