Personal columns explained
Some weeks it's next to impossible to come up with something interesting to write about. "They" always say you should write about what you know — I guess that's why I write so much about my girls.
Personal columns appear on the opinion or editorial page and are signed. They don't always express an opinion. They are meant to share a point of view or entertain the reader.
Most personal columns appear under specific headings — such as this one, under "Miscellany," or Norma Hannaford's "Random Thoughts" and Bill Meyer's "Mostly Malarkey."
We don't expect every reader to like every column. The purpose is to provide a variety of topics and writing styles that appeal to a variety of readers.
It certainly would be boring if every columnist wrote about the same topic with the same points of view and opinions. And it wouldn't be very fulfilling to be in the newspaper business if every reader liked every single thing in the paper.
If variety is the spice of life, then we're just adding a unique flavor of our own.
— DONNA BERNHARDT
