My journalist friend’s prayer for 2021

Photo submitted - From left to right, Robert Williams, Alan NeSmith and Dink NeSmith at the 2021 Georgia Press Association convention.
Photo submitted - From left to right, Robert Williams, Alan NeSmith and Dink NeSmith at the 2021 Georgia Press Association convention.

The year was 1973. Robert was 22.  I was 24.  I used to joke and call us “boy publishers.”  But Robert Williams was a veteran compared to me.  He’d always wanted to be a newspaperm…