I said hello four years ago this month as editor of the Richmond News and Excelsior Springs Standard. Now, I say good-bye. Nothing personal. After 42 years as a journalist, I just need to do a few other things. Like drive my family crazy. Hee, hee, hee. They think they want to spend more time with me. How long will that feeling last? I give it a week. My wife and I plan a bit of incountry traveling, doing so slow and easy. Maybe, after that, we’ll expand our horizons. I also have to take care of work projects around the house, do some writing for fun and maybe profit, and spend time with several hobbies. After four decades of neglect, I have enough to do to last another lifetime. My work decades started, full time, in My work decades started, full time, in 1980 at the New Baden News in Illinois, just across the Mississippi from my house in St. Louis County. The agricultural community had fewer than 2,000 residents and everyone read the newspaper like it mattered, and it did. We…