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Chas Lyons

The Parting Words of a Mentor and Friend: Why Do I Have to Leave?

There is a hollow place inside me as I write this latest essay — a feeling created by the passing of a mentor and friend who died suddenly…

3 min readApr 13, 2024

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Chas Lyons

The Importance of Knowing Your Story

After 50 years of work, mostly in the newspaper world, I retired as a newspaper executive for The Washington Post Company at the age of 66.

5 min readMar 29, 2024

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Chas Lyons

Unselfing Your “Self”

The man in the looking glass, who can he be? The man in the looking glass, can he possibly be me? Man in the looking glass, have no…

4 min readFeb 28, 2024

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Chas Lyons

Acceptance, Resilience, and the Contradictions of Life

“It is far easier to see the gloom and decay; so often it sings a louder song. Attune our hearts to the good still stirring in our midst…

4 min readJan 20, 2024

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Where People Go To Die

It is Monday, before lunchtime, and I am sitting at the corner of a table that accommodates four residents in the large room of this…

6 min readJun 4, 2023

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Chas Lyons

In Search of Your “Original Self”?

Answer These Seven Questions

4 min readApr 30, 2023

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Contentment — A Bewildering Word for 2023

There is a small town named Hope that has little commercial activity but is kept alive by an elementary school, a library, a post office…

4 min readJan 22, 2023

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His One Single-Minded Purpose in Life: DO GOOD!

In the early days as publisher of a group of newspapers owned by the Washington Post Company, a community leader, Lon Dring, called and…

4 min readNov 9, 2022

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Chas Lyons

What To Do With All Of Those Thoughts…And The World Inside Us

A veteran of the Vietnam War was sharing what was happening in his life — a new job, working out at the fitness center, staying in touch…

4 min readOct 13, 2022

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What To Do With All Of Those Thoughts…And The World Inside Us

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Chas Lyons

His Last Conversation

…And the Question That He Asked

4 min readSep 9, 2022

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His Last Conversation

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Chas Lyons

Chas Lyons

Chas Lyons is a retired CEO and publisher of newspapers. He lives in Rhode Island where he enjoys writing, family, and escaping to a log cabin in Maine.

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