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.

The primary reason for my retirement was that my life had changed to that of a caregiver for a spouse that was in declining health with Alzheimer’s Disease.

As is the case with most changes in life, there were other underlying reasons.

Newspapers were under assault by the Internet. Online newspaper web sites were no match for competitors like Google, Facebook, and Apple that…