As long as I’ve been a Macintosh user, I’ve been a Macworld reader.
That’s about a quarter century of reading – and I do mean reading.
I would obsessively digest every print issue cover to cover, not once, but two or three times, and then lovingly tuck it into a bookcase for future reference.
Macworld had a hallowed place in my nerdy childhood and early adulthood, alongside kids’ magazines like Boy’s Life and the Argentine Billiken, and science-fiction magazines like Analog and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.
But I wanted more.
As long as I’ve been a Macworld reader, I’ve wanted to be a Macworld writer.
As a lifelong journalist and technology nerd, I lusted after a Macworld byline. It was not a primary career track (I had and have a career in newspapers), but it was a cherished one. It was a Holy Grail of sorts, a bucket-list item.
Now that dream has come true, after a fashion: I recently sold an article to Macworld.com.
Sadly, the piece will not see print. The Macworld print magazine passed away earlier this year.
But now my name and the Macworld name go together for the first time. When I Google “Macworld” and “Ojeda,” the piece comes up.
Yeah, I’m over the moon.
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