Why I Give Thanks

Thanks.

You know who you are, and you know why I’m thanking you.

Have a happy day, wherever you are.

Meanwhile, I wrote a little something for the paper’s annual “Why I Give Thanks” section. 

It starts like this:

Four days before I graduated from Ripon College, I drove down Tower Road in Waupaca and walked into the offices of WDUX Radio.

I sat down with Morgan Marti, the station manager, and told him I was looking for my first job in the “real world” and thought I might be able to help WDUX.

“That depends,” Marti said with an enigmatic smile. “What can you do?”

I talked about my experience as program director for the student radio station at Ripon and my love for music and —

“Nope, we don’t need another disk jockey,” he said. “What else you got?”

Read the rest.

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