It’s been 10 years since the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty children and six adults were killed that morning, 11 days before Christmas, in a suburban Connecticut school. I’m a journalist who, by training and temperament, tries to stay professional about the tragedy that I’ve been around so much in my career. I’ve… Continue reading

The past week I’ve done something that I haven’t done in a long time: Listened to an album all the way through, the way the artists intended. Even when I lived in the world of 45s and 33 1/3s, and that was the first half of my life, I didn’t really do that. And mp3s… Continue reading

Col. Joseph Kittinger died a few days ago at age 94. He led an extraordinary life. As an Air Force officer, in 1960, he jumped from a gondola 19 miles above the Earth’s surface for the highest parachute jump ever recorded. It came after a failed attempt the year before that nearly killed him, at… Continue reading