Autumn on my mind

By Mike Nistler

Strangely enough, I've been thinking of fall lately. Not that I want the temps to cool and the leaves to start changing color. Quite the contrary. It seems as though summer has hardly begun. Actually, officially summer doesn't begin until tomorrow, but I digress.

The reason that I'm thinking of autumn is that our July/August issue of Minnesota Moments is due to roll off the presses in Long Prairie on Tuesday. That means, I've got to not only be thinking about, but writing stories for, our September/October issue.

Being an editor and a publisher of a magazine like Minnesota Moment's is great. But the most difficult aspect of the job is looking ahead several months, and sometimes as much as a  year, to make sure that the proper stories are planned, written and photographed.

I'm not complaining, just explaining. I think I'll go out and play in the sunny backyard with my Golden Retrievers.