If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years in this business — and if you read last week’s “Pub Chat,” you know those years have piled up to be almost 40 — it’s that you often never know how what you write will resonate.

Take that very “Pub Chat” for example.

It was a reflection on a four-decade career, most of which has been spent here at the Finger Lakes Times, and recalling my very first assignment.

Many readers, however, thought I was saying goodbye.

Wrote one: “The reason I’m writing is whether there is reason for this FLT subscriber to be concerned about your planned reflection for Jan. 30. I’m hoping your ‘reflection’ isn’t signaling retirement/resignation.”

Reporter Mike Hibbard told me he went to church on Sunday and at least five people asked him, “Is Cutillo retiring?”

Well, folks, I feel a little like Mark Twain who in 1897, after his obituary was mistakenly published, famously said, “The reports of my death are........

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