A Reporter's Life

Dave Barry's done

Well, now Dave Barry has gone and made me sad. After taking a yearlong sabbatical, he's not going to resume his weekly humor column.

It's been more than a year since I blogged about how he was taking a break, and I guess I'd just figured he would be back. Fortunately his blog is far from silent, so I can attempt to keep up with him there. However, the newspaper column world just won't quite be the same.

OK, now that I've thought about it for a little bit, my response is more along the lines of, "Good for Dave! He's a newspaper writer who can actually take a sabbatical and then not return to work -- but can still write on his own terms." He's done a heck of a lot of work over the years, and he deserves to be able to keep writing in a way that makes him happy.

Posted by Layla at 11:15 PM, December 28, 2005