To Everything There Is a Season

Since I volunteered to write a blog on Wake Forest sports some 20 months ago, it has been a labor of love. I’ve had a blast, and have been immensely gratified by the following it has attracted.

Since I volunteered, and wasn’t assigned the blog, I never saw it as an excuse to give short shrift to my coverage of Wake Forest for the daily newspaper or website. Instead it has been an extension of that coverage. And because I’ve enjoyed it so much, I’ve never resented the added work it entails. I’ve actually never really seen it as work because I’ve written when I felt like it and had something I wanted to say. If you’ve followed My Take On Wake during the meat of the football or basketball season, you know I’ve felt like writing often and have had much to say.

The calendar turns, though, and it’s no longer football or basketball season. As a result, I have other responsibilities, to the Journal and to myself and my family. I’m enjoying covering the Winston-Salem Dash at its splendid new digs, BB&T Ballpark, and I enjoyed writing an extended profile on a local softball umpire that will appear in the Journal in June. I’ve also enjoyed some time away from sports. Because I’m old, and have been at the Journal so long, I get five weeks vacation. But the unspoken caveat is that I best take them in the time between the end of the school year and the start of football practice in the first days of August.

To keep My Take On Wake fresh and current at this time of year—given how seldom I’m on campus and how few people are around and available—would be a chore. And for it to be good, it can’t be a chore. It has to remain a labor of love.

That’s why you haven’t seen much from me these past few weeks and why you probably won’t until the pads start popping in August. By then I’ll be tanned, rested and ready to fire it back up.

Hope you understand.

Hope to have you back.

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