The Age of Enlightenment? —DeWese

OK students. Settle down. This is an important and historic lecture, so I need to concentrate.

This column starts off the 26th year of authoring them. It’s also my first column written on a new desktop PC.

I forgot that last month was my 25th anniversary writing this column. My first column was published in November 1984. I wrote it on an Apple IIc personal computer. Back then, I faxed the manuscript to my editor and she had someone retype the copy. Shortly thereafter, the chief editor left for another job and was replaced by Mark Michelson. He has been my editor ever since.