Yes, I’ve got rocket fever again. But then again, I always have rocket fever. I’m always up for a ’60s and ’70s throwback, and this is definitely it: The Artemis II crew will be doing a modern-day Apollo 8 mission — a little further out but still awesome —and I’m all in. I wrote a… Continue reading

When I get to the Lincoln Memorial, and it has been 10 years this summer, I always find this space. It’s a pretty important spot, moment in time, and challenge. Continue reading

Tracy Kidder was one of the best practitioners of what’s called narrative journalism, making words and people and meaning come alive. I fell into “The Soul of a New Machine” as a teenager in the ’80s, partly because I liked the cover and partly because some of took place on the Route 128 corridor near… Continue reading