I have been a DJ for a Cleveland classic-rock station for eight years now.

I like the job, I like the city — it also helps that I like classic rock.

My first paid radio gig began a few years after college, and for the most part I’ve been at rock stations — classic and alternative. But for two years, in my early 30s, I hosted a Cleveland show I helped create called “Night Thoughts,” which aired on a talk-radio station.

Listeners didn’t call in like on the station’s other shows. People who wanted to be on “Night Thoughts” sent emails, and I read the ones I selected on the air. The show’s premise was pretty simple: people would share intimate feelings, dark secrets, existential woes — stuff too hot to divulge by phone. It aired midnight... Read More