39. Costumes

Not the Halloween kind

A scene from a Blue Collar Wrestling event. Portland, Oregon, 2017.

Here are two not-so-official truths of making journalism:

(1) If you stay in the job long enough, you’ll write so many stories that you’ll forget many of them altogether; (2) If you stay in the job long enough, you’ll write a few stories that change you.

Recently, I had the pleasure of spe…