‘Letting go, and looking ahead’ – Ellen Goodman’s Farewell Column
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from Ellen Goodman’s Farewell column: Letting go, and looking ahead – The Boston Globe:
“Looking backward and forward, I began writing my column when my daughter was 7 and I leave as my grandson turns 7. I began writing about Gerald Ford and end writing about Barack Obama. I began on a typewriter, transmitting columns on a Xerox telecopier. Now I have a MacBook on my desk and an iPhone in my pocket.
“I celebrated my lucky midlife marriage in these pages, sent my daughter to college, welcomed my grandchildren, said farewell to my mother. I upheld Thanksgiving traditions in this space and celebrated them with a family that evolved far beyond my grandparents’ idea of tradition. I wrote about values and pushed back against those who believe they own the patent on this word.”
Read her full column here.
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Thanks for sharing this. This is sad, as there are so few women newspaper columnists now. I guess women bloggers, at our best, should try to carry a splinter of that torch.
It is very sad indeed, especially for readers who frequent her columns. But what a “Graceful Exit,” such confidence Ms. Goodman has for the future — “every exit line is an entry, that we are moving on rather than out.”