On March 14 of this year, I said goodbye to The Evening Sun after 18 ½ years working as the sports editor. I suppose I should have written, “see you later.”

It was a long farewell to the Norwich readers on a couple of fronts. One, I informed my supervisors of my departure three months in advance, and two; I summarized my career in about 2,000 words. My former boss, Jeff Genung, who spent nearly five more years with the newspaper, wrapped up his treatise in about half as many words

An editor at a larger newspaper may not have afforded me the opportunity to write a final column, and if he did, he would have surely placed constraints on the amount of space I used. The beauty of writing for a hyper-local newspaper is that I seldom had limits.