TCH ~ the missing blog.

This is the blog I started, then lost. This morning I was searching for something in my computer and I accidentally came across this. It is now outdated, and since I wrote it, my temporary time at TCH has been extended a few times. I'm still there and still learning new things. I'm faced with having to take some chances, make some choices ~ and I don't know how it will turn out. But we never do, do we? Finding this little snippet this morning seems a bit like a message to myself. I'll figure it out later!


It’s almost the last week of November and starting to feel like winter outside. Time really does go by faster as you get older. Yes, I’m older. Old.

In September, almost exactly 23 years after the first time, I started working at the Tri-City Herald again. It is a temporary position that will end in just about 5 more weeks. I can’t believe how quickly my time there has flown by. At the end of December I will be able to say that I worked for the Tri-City Herald for 21 years. When I had to leave there in 2011 I was just 4 months short of 21 years. I will be sad to have to leave again, but it has been good for me. It won’t be as sad as when I had to leave 2 ½ years ago. Being given the opportunity to go back, for even a short time, has been such a positive experience for me.

It’s been like getting back together with an old friend. I don’t only mean the people, but the place itself. Of course, some of my old friends are still there, but many have moved on. Many positions just no longer exist. The business is changing, as all things must. It makes me a little sad. Still, there is something about being there that feels like home; arriving in the morning with the anticipation of the day, the hustle and bustle of making deadlines and creating something that impacts so many people’s lives on a daily basis. I was always proud of the Herald and I still am.
Being able to return has also helped me to find a part of myself that I had lost over the past couple of years.