Column: A story of survival

Over the past few years, I have written thousands of stories that were published in newspapers all over the western United States. From time to time, I will get online and look at some of my older stories, and in truth I don't really remember much about a lot of them. There are only a few that really stand out, and I can look back and remember the interviews and what I was feeling when I was typing.

The other day I was thinking back on a story that really touched me and wanted to give it a read. For some reason when the newspaper I was working at switched web page providers, it destroye...