Captain’s Log- Let’s Go Another Week

It is late on Tuesday, and the “where is your column” notes have started dropping in the team chat. Some days this happens – there is just too much going on, and I cannot get my brain to settle long enough to focus and write. Even at 4 a.m., 8, or now 10:40, our deadline is creeping closer. 

On days like today, I resort to the idea file, hoping to find something, anything that jars loose some cogent thoughts that may be worthy of documenting. 

There are some funny things in the notes file, the Idea Bin, if you will. We’ve covered this territory before as I dig around for things to write about – how things strike me and what in the world I was thinking when I captured some of it, but it’s sort of entertaining in a “wow, this is what 57-year-old looks like” sort of way.

Here is one: “If the legend is better, write the damn legend,” said my dad’s old friend, Fletch Galper, one day when they were telling stories and talking about Dad writing his horse stories.

This one: “Six months and a road trip,” not really sure, but today it sounds like a formula for how to tell if your date is going to be worth spending eternity together. 

Also treasures like, “Ephemera – write this into a book about life, all the little things that make us who we are,” and my favorite, “One More Week – The story of small-town newspapering.”

Which reminds me, we let the first of the year pass without recognizing our seventh birthday. On January 1, 2019, this experiment in local community news began on a wing and a prayer and a homemade website. Here we are seven years later with a printed weekly for our own community, two more community weeklies for our neighboring communities, an online, statewide, rural newspaper, and a national magazine. We have also added book publishing for two local authors, and a “front porch” to our media empire, the Great Basin Trading Co., on Maine Street in Fallon. 

What a ride it has been.

What a scrappy little team that is holding it all together, and what a great community that has supported us through it all. 

We are grateful.

So, with our hearts full and our resolve focused on seven or ten or maybe even fifty more years, let’s go another week, as always…

…Keeping you Posted.

Rach