Bend columnist remembers colleagues 25 years into working at The Bulletin (Part II)

Last week, I reminisced about the 25th anniversary of my family’s move to Bend, where I began working at The Bulletin in 2001. Maybe reminiscing is shameless sentimentality, but on the other hand, the need to share stories is one of the most basic of human things, right? And you don’t get much more basic than me and my compulsion to make noises with my mouth — or, in print (and online!). The point is, unspooling memories last week pitted me against this column’s space constraints, and so I barely mentioned my journalism peers or the newsroom of 25 years ago. Let’s remedy that. Throughout my career, including my six years at a Florida paper, I’ve had the pleasure of working with incredibly smart and dedicated journalists. If you were to generalize about print (and online!) journalists, it’s that they are more often than not intelligent, skeptical, cynical, creative, humorous and good with words.

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