I'm a newspaper guy

I was talking to my good friend Edub last week about folks we used to work with at the Bozeman Chronicle who had gone on to work for larger newspapers.

We laughed about a rookie reporter at the paper who had struggled with the writing, couldn’t meet deadlines, and left after less than a year. Edub said he thought the guy was still working for the Boston Globe.

Then he looked at me with a grin on his face and said: “And you’re working for the Phillips County News.”

It’s true. My journalism career hasn’t exactly seen a meteoric rise. The Bozeman Chronicle, where I worked for 20 years, was the to...