Writing this weekly column for the past five years has allowed me to take an incredible journey around DeKalb County. But I feel it is time to conclude this chapter in my writing career and spend more time on unfinished projects and other priorities.

This was not my first go-round at producing a personal column. When I was editor of the Daily Chronicle in the early 1970s, I penned one titled “Barbed Wires.” Next, while editing newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, I wrote a weekly column for several years.

When retirement came and we returned to our roots in DeKalb County, I approached the Chronicle with the idea for a column about people, places and events that make our county special.