The day before his number gets retired by the San Diego Chargers, we look back at what LaDainian Tomlinson has meant to this blog and community.
Writing for, and running, a blog is a funny thing. Especially for me.
I didn't start Bolts from the Blue, but I became its captain just a few months after it was started. I was 23 years old, and the extent of my writing "experience" was as a contributor/editor for my community college newspaper. My training was an informal one, trying to learn what I could from the written words Bukowski and Tolstoy and Thompson and Leitch and Magary and Ufford and.