So true, Mel. This passage in particular struck me: The fact is, your storytelling talents make you a superhero. Your job as a journalist is to take a complex issue or idea and explain it so that anyone can understand it. This is not a talent to take lightly my friend. It is to be valued, cherished. I’ve had precisely the same experience since I left the G+M almost five years ago. During my first couple of weeks post-Globe, the former CEO of a global company here pulled me aside and said, ‘You have no idea how valuable your skills are.’ When I asked him to explain, he said, ‘In my world, it would take a committee of people three weeks to do what you can do in an hour. That’s valuable.’ I still worry, as I’m sure you do, about fewer journalists practising actual journalism. It’s a huge problem that we as a society need to solve. But for us recovering journalists, there is much to life on the other side. Thanks for articulating it so well.