Some Perspective Please

摘要

Like many businesses, timber-related or not, SLT's parent company in January trimmed personnel and slashed other expenses in an effort to stay ahead of the hounds. One of those released by Hatton-Brown Publishers was Tonya Cooner-Vots, who wrote thiscolumn for several years. Tonya did a commendable job in this space and otherwise carried the H-B flag with honor. We wish her and the other H-B departed the very best. As I write this, it seems that the economic calamity continues its grip. I'm remindedof that line in an old Merle Haggard song: "Are we goin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell?" It was only a short time ago that I could see retirement on the horizon. Today I can't even see the horizon. But hey, ole Merle is older than me and he's still performing.