Thanks to my Reader Weekly readers

Every so often I get either a question or an observation:

Are you still writing for the Reader?

I haven’t seen you in the Reader for some time.

To the first I get rather snide: Are you still not reading the Reader?

To the second I thank for noticing I have not written for the Reader for some time.

I wish I could get either of them to regularly visit this blog.  I certainly had more readers in the Reader than I have for this little obscure blog.

As to why I stopped writing for the Reader Weekly, I was bumped one too many times.  Why should I write 800-1200 words each week, submit them before the deadline, and then open the next edition without seeing what I wrote.

I could say more, but I don’t want to mention names.

So, although I get far fewer readers for this blog, I get to write as little as much as I want.  I don’t have to wait until Thursday to see my latest tirade about Donald Trump:)

Thanks, Dave, for asking.  And thanks for your own letter writing to the Duluth News Tribune.  I just read your “Local View” from over a year ago.

Oh, and thanks to those readers of this blog that pass the link on to others.

Thanks to my Reader Weekly fans

Often people who know me or recognize my name or face ask about my Reader Weekly column, “Party of One".  I now have to tell them that I no longer write for the Reader.  I was bumped one too many times.  I don’t wish to make a deadline and then not have my column published.  Especially since the publisher asked me specifically to write again; I had stopped writing because a previous editor bumped me one too many times.

If you are one of my Reader Weekly fans, please let me know that you read this blog entry.  It would make my day.