The salient facts are these: The decision was mine, the timing seems right, and I feel very grateful.
My first experience at a newspaper came via The Orange and Black, the student publication for Grand Junction High School, named after my hometown, whose most famous past scribe had been the late Dalton Trumbo, Oscar-winning member of the Hollywood Ten.
Upon graduating from Grand Junction’s Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in both nothing and everything, thanks to my habit of changing my major every twenty minutes, I tried following in Trumbo’s footsteps again by enrolling at the University of California Los Angeles‘s renowned graduate film program, with an eye toward becoming a screenwriter. But while I thoroughly enjoyed the process of putting together stories…
