Friday, September 11, 2020

Flashback Friday!


Flashback Friday! Karen was cleaning out her office when she found this notepad in the bottom of a box. It's from my days as a newspaper reporter for a small California daily. The first two pages look like notes from a City Council meeting about allocating $292,398 to build a transit garage. The next several pages look like notes Karen took while she was in training to be an entry-level social worker. I imagine I handed it to her when she was heading to work and didn't have anything to write on.

It's circa 1985. Today, Karen is preparing to retire from her 35-year career in social services, capped by leading a department with 900 people and a budget of $300 million. I've written a lot more stuff and had a few books published. This notepad is a physical artifact of when we'd barely started on those paths together. It kind of symbolizes . . . everything.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks cool. Where is the screen?

Brian Fies said...

HA!

Now get off my lawn.

Anonymous said...

Thinking of Karen, instead of basking in the thought of retirement springing into action yet again. Thinking of you having to steel yourself to the possibility of evacuating again. My heat just breaks for you and your neighbors. Be safe, stay strong.

Anonymous said...

*heart