Terry Boers

My last show will be January 5th.

So I do this wanting you to understand it's been a...

Very difficult year, and it wasn't a difficult decision to make, but I want you to understand that I'm not being driven from the business.

I'm not being as disappointing as all this has been to me because I'm a guy who's worked for 50 years, and I would have happily worked the last six months of this as well every damn day.

It hasn't turned out that way, and I don't know that it ever will again.

I mean, I couldn't, even if I wanted to say to myself, well, hold off a while.

No, I can't because I don't know what the future holds.

I really don't.

And I know that if I retire, which I was going to do, I wanted to make it 25 years.

25 years started on January 2nd, 1991, at the score, or 1992.

And this would be 25 years on January 2nd of this year.

I wanted to make it to 25 years.

And you say, what's wrong?

I don't know why.

I just did.

It'd be 20 years of writing for a living and 25 years of doing this for a living.

And I can promise you that these last 25 years have been a hell of a lot better than the first 20.

And it's meant the world to me.

And it continues to do so.

It continues to do so even as I face the last stages of it.