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

Wise words from Bob Dylan here: “As you get older, you get smarter and that can hinder you because you try to gain control over the creative impulse. Creativity is not like a freight train going down the tracks. It’s something that has to be caressed and treated with a great deal of respect. If… Continue reading