I have been writing more on my fancy new MacBook Air laptop, but something feels more authentic when I go back to my pen and journal. Perhaps it’s the physical act of forming the letters, and the letters into words, and the words into sentences, that make it all feel more real.
Can the reader tell the difference between something I composed with a pen, then transcribed, and something that sprang straight from the keyboard? I would, at first glance, think not.
But now the words come out and I feel like I can tell the difference. At least I feel closer to the thought.
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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