Yowza! It’s the end of the first full week of 2015 and I am kicking my 2015 goal’s butt. My newspaper column appeared in yesterday’s edition of the community newspaper and I am really stoked. Last fall I’d fired off an email to a woman I’d met briefly at a networking ‘do’, proposing a regular column on things writerly. Local, small circulation papers always need content and I was willing to whip something up to meet their needs. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I knew the task was manageable – when my son played rep hockey back in the day, I’d covered the games. Somewhere amongst my memorabilia is a folder of clippings from my days as a ‘sports reporter’. I sent her a mini-plan…

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