May 23, 1988 was a date that lives in infamy in southwestern Wisconsin journalism history.

On May 23, 1988 at 8 a.m. — eight days after my graduation from the University of Wisconsin — I started work at the Grant County Herald Independent in Lancaster, the first day in a quarter-century of print and/or rural media adventures.

Some thoughts about that can be read in this fine publication.

I am so overscheduled today that I have little to  say on this subject … other than that I have to get to work, and that no public celebration of this anniversary is planned.