Productive weekend

I’m at the stage of life that I definitely don’t shoot for “productive” weekends as much as I do “relaxing” ones with lots of downtime. But, every so often, a productive weekend isn’t so bad and helps get the following week off to a good start. This weekend was one of them. I started Saturday by heading back to my alma mater for a reunion brunch with former college newspaper staff. It was a nice, chill gathering that let me catch up with some old friends I hadn’t seen in a while as well as meet some new folks that I just missed overlapping with at the paper. One was a former editor-in-chief that we discovered works indirectly with my wife. The event was a reunion, sure, but also a ruse to get former newspaper advisor and journalism professor Steve Watkins there to present to him a fantastic surprise: a new scholarship in his name, funded by former newspaper staff and students. I have fond memories of the one credit Practicum in Journalism class I took every semester when I was writing…