One small step for me.

This has proven much more difficult to write than I anticipated, probably because this is the hardest decision I have ever had to make.

Harder than the decision to leave Memphis and my career in the arts in order to pursue a life in journalism. Harder than the decision to divorce my first husband, the father of my child.

And I'm not one to take a leap without considering all the options, so you'd best believe that I have discussed this with Jim, with my parents, with close friends, with mentors. Probably until they were tired of talking about it with me. I have dithered and stalled, because once I post this, it's final. It's real.

I'm leaving the newspaper. With that decision ends 21 years in daily journalism.

Wow, that was hard to type. And I haven't even done it yet.

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