By Jim Studer
As I begin For What It’s Worth, a column I have written every three or four weeks for the last several years, I wonder how poor handwriting, bad spelling, average elementary school grades could become someone sometimes referred to as a writer. In high school and college writing was a painful challenge. Except for a story in the eleventh grade English and sports column, “Chalk Talk” in the Cathedral High School newspaper, I never enjoyed the writing or the product. The eleventh grade paper was to rewrite a children’s story in an unusual style. The Three Little Pigs as told by one of the Evangelists in the King James Biblical style, “and it came to pass…,” was fun to write.