Reading the Old Me - Columns from several years ago

In this episode, I dust off four more old newspaper columns from the early days of me pretending I knew what I was doing.

They may not be my finest work, and a couple of them feel like they were written by a man running entirely on coffee, deadline panic, and blind confidence, but they still carry the heart of where it all started. 

This round wanders through memories, small-town life, and the kind of ordinary moments that somehow felt important enough to make the paper. Some hold up better than others. Some probably should have stayed in the archives. 

Either way, it's a look back at the writing voice I was trying to find before I ever knew anyone might be listening to years later.