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Several of My Readers Have Suggested
NMB, Florida January 28, 2001 A.H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published Now and
Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
SEVERAL OF MY READERS HAVE SUGGESTED
In asking me to take them off my list because I write too frequently for
them to catch up reading, several of my readers suggested I find some
newspaper to be printed in. This is all very fine and good except my
readers are my friends and they don't all live in the Miami Herald or the
Broward Sun Sentinel areas.
This has happened frequently during my career as a freelance journalist.
There is an initial interest in what I have to say and then there is silence
from my correspondents. I have about a half dozen respondents whom I can
depend upon to answer, sometimes negatively and then argue forcefully for
some other point I didn't make. I wait for, welcome and enjoy these the
best. There is no need for anyone to write anything to me. I happily
compose on the computer almost every morning and it just pours out. I wrote
originally for my children and these are addressed to my younger son, Hal.
He rarely replies.
I am lucky to have Carol willing to proofread for me. Unfortunately for me
she argues with what I have to say and how I say it rather than look for
correctable mistakes. She mostly thinks that I write "real good". I think
that I just write and am not interested in being graded although some of our
readers look to see what she has to say in the endnote about what I have
produced.
Here is a question for those who think what I have to say is on a par with
what they read in the editorials and letters to the editors of the
newspapers they read. Would you be willing to pass on one of my essays with
the recommendation that the paper consider printing me?
My son Hal, to whom all of these is directed, has sort of promised to
construct a second web site for me (I ruined the first one). Then I can post
what I write there for an even bigger audience than I have now or would have
if printed in newspapers around the country. Thinking aloud is what I do. I
can't think how to get a bigger audience.
Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10.
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