Column

Thanks to readers who have emailed me or commented, asking why I've been slacking for the past six weeks or so.

("Hey, whatever happened to that column you write?")

After a change in publisher and editorship, the Herald and Bristol Press decided to go a different route in getting local content on the page -- more actual news, less opinion -- and my column was dropped.

I'm sad that no one got to read my 3/13 column (below), because it highlighted local comic book shops that I think everyone should go see, and the opinions of expert fans (rather than just me), but otherwise, I'm happy with my experience as a columnist, and I wish the papers well. I think I mentioned in one of my columns once that my first job was delivering the Herald in my neighborhood, a job I inherited from a family down the street, and that they'd passed through at least two of their children before it came to me. The papers are a part of our local and personal history, and I'm relieved they're still going to be around.

As for me, I'm still around, too.

If you'd like to write to me directly, please do. My email address is posted at the top of this blog, and also here: aliciad.watkins@yahoo.com. I always enjoy getting comments, and interviewing people and hearing their (your) stories was by far the best and most fun part of this job.

Or, if you see me on the street, feel free to say hi...or to cross to the other side of the road, depending on whether you liked the column or not.

But either way, thanks again for reading.