Gen X, the ever-squeezed. It was like that when we were born, growing up, now and til the day we’re all gone. We oughta be used to it by now. Continue reading

Five years. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since Covid-19 swept across the United States. This was the last normal day before everything went awry, at least in my state. Even though I knew it was coming, it was still disturbing and unsettling and it looked like nothing so much as a tidal… Continue reading

Hard to overestimate how influential Robert A. Caro is in writing and journalism, “The Power Broker” and then his multivolume biographies of LBJ. I was fascinated too by his slim volume, “Working,” which contained a fair amount about how he reported and wrote. My favorite piece of advice: “Turn every page.” It’s similar to a… Continue reading