This column, "The Journey Continues," celebrates three years this month and was started through a fateful encounter with Don Moore, former publisher of the San Marcos Daily Record. Since arriving in San Marcos in 1989, I had read Jerry Bullock’s column “Life Is Like That” every Sunday. Upon Bullock’s retirement, after 31 years as columnist, Pastor Gary Smith continued a Sunday column which I enjoyed reading also, until it disappeared. At an opportune moment, I seized the chance: “Don, I want to do the Sunday column.” Without hesitation he returned fire and said “OK” to my request; adding that “it doesn’t pay anything, needs to be 400 words, and I don’t edit or type.”
At first, Lori Steindorf, followed by Laura Aebi, to currently Rachel Willis, were the feature editors of the San Marcos Daily Record and managed my weekly columns. Anita Miller, managing editor, and Lance Winter, present Publisher have supported my efforts.
I have written about equality, trust, respect, service to the nation, reading and summer ministry and national holidays, but always with a Biblical reference. I have interviewed a variety of folks, both wellknown and unknown to the general readership. I always asked them to share their favorite “life verse” from the Bible. Journeying from Fentress to College Station; to West Point, New York; to west Texas, to Vietnam, to San Marcos, some of my encounters were planned and some were serendipity, but I trusted the Lord that all were his divine appointments.
