Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

I need a break Rather than a 2025 roundup of stories and posts on Cole's Notes and my Facebook page, I've decided to make some changes to my publications. Mainly evaluating what the Blog is for - and how I want to move forward. For  January, I am revising and streamlining my systems for the  Cole's Notes  and  View from the Plateau  Substacks, and  cleaning up a backlog of email across multiple platforms. I will return on  Sunday, February 1, 2026 , and will respond to your message then.

On being a "Retired" Journalist So here it is 2020 - I got out of 2019 with minimal damage. As you can tell - there's wasn't much going on on in 2019 for my Blogging. I did (and still do) most of my posting on Facebook. Both Quotes of the day and Column of the day are part of what I have been doing as a hobbyist communication and content creation blogger. But I have been spending more time reading and cross-posting than creating.  Passing on other people's writing rather than creating my own. I was trying to build an audience and connect to more folks as well. While it did give me a more significant following and audience than posting in the Cole's Notes Blog was doing I was doing it it was the lazy man way by using my iPhone to curate and post on Twitter and Facebook. Also, I linked the Blog to my  Cooper's place page on Facebook and G+. Well, for 2020, I'm updating all this stuff to cut back on the Social Media to spend more time doing...