My home office finally reached that negative tipping point where I absolutely had to deal with it. This always happens when I can't find some critical piece of paper, and the only way past it is to winnow through all the piles that have accumulated in the years (yes, it is years) that I've been letting it go since the last time someone visited and used the office as a guest room.
Part of my excuse is that I was being treated for cancer during a year or more of that time, and the other part is that during treatment I moved my base of home operation to the living room, so the office became a repository. That meant the office didn't need to function as a workable space, and my normally bad habit of piling things led to worse-than-normally bad piles on the floor. You begin to get the picture.
Anyway, today was the day that I went through it all and mostly got it under control.
While I was doing that, I found a page from the Star Tribune I had saved because I wanted to write about it here. It's from October 13, 2024. But other than the fact that it's an obituary, the article is relatively timeless.
I knew when I saw his byline, whether it was during his lengthy career covering economics or in a commentary after he retired in 2009, it would be worth reading. I didn't know until I read his obit that he had started working as a journalist near where I grew up and went to college, or that he was a single guy his whole life, or that he had been active in the Newspaper Guild.
He was only 75 when he died, it appears from some kind of complications after a fall and a broken ankle.
No funeral was held, the obituary reported, "but friends will gather privately to share memories." For the record, this reader also remembers him and his work fondly.
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The obituary was written by Randy Furst, Meyers's long-time colleague who retired in February 2025 from the Strib at age 78, after more than 50 years at the newspaper.
Photo of Mike Meyers by Star Tribune photographer David Joles
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