Writing of a Different Stripe: My Maiden Voyage as a Columnist

Ever get in touch with an old friend after many years of having no idea where that person was or what they were doing?

That's what happened to me a few weeks ago.

I ran across my old boss, mentor and friend Mike Johnson on the Web. In the early 80s, Mike shepherded my career for six years, recommending me into a job on a New York-based McGraw-Hill Magazine, Housing. 

A year and a half later, he hired me out of the job and into the company's World News bureau in Chicago.  Later on, after he left World News and moved to England to edit International Management magazine, and after I had moved to San Francisco and left McGraw-Hill, he hired me as a freelancer for his magazine.

Then we lost touch for about 20 years.

A few weeks ago, I happend to find something Mike had written recently. I re-established contact.

It turns out Mike now writes some uniquely fascinating columns for a site called The Columnists. After a few emails back and forth, and a look at what I had written over the years (including, most notably, what's on this very blog), he invited me to try my hand at a column myself.

My first one is up and running, as of this morning.  It's called: "The Love Child of Welfare and Entrepreneurism." 

Is it Diana Ross meets FDR meets Donald Trump? 

See what you think:

http://www.thecolumnists.com/guestcols/garfinkel1.html

It's nice to be writing a little general-interest, mass-media type stuff again.

David Garfinkel
Publisher, World Copywriting Newsletter

Comments

[Daniel Mcgonagle]

Thanks for the heads up! Really great post. That's a must-read I must
say. :)