Origin story, Part 2: It started at a typewriter

Where else does a writer's story begin?

I wrote earlier about how my career as a newspaper journalist at the Sandusky Register ended. I decided it might be a good idea to bookend that with a column about how it started. I was 35 in 1993 when I moved back to Ohio from Maryland, where I’d lived for 14 years just outside of Washington, D.C.

I was a wandering soul in those earlier years. When I fi…