Reading Time: 2 minutes By 1979 Nixon had resigned as president after the Watergate scandal, but I couldn’t hold that against his wife’s frugal fashion choices. Continue reading A respectable Republican cloth coat, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us live our lives as “pantsers.” We don’t plot out things in advance. We fly by the seat of our pants. And sometimes the fabric wears a little thin. Continue reading Anothuh day, and anothuh, and anothuh, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes The copy flow on Super Bowl Sunday is different from any other night. The reporters all file early. The pages get laid out late. The bottleneck is the desk editor In other words, me. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 6
Reading Time: 2 minutes Looking back, this budding writer could have used some good professional advice. Perhaps Lincoln said it best. Continue reading A remarkably unremarkable day, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did they or didn’t they? What was the premonition of disaster and how was it fulfilled? Yesterday I teased you. Today you’re here. Cliffhangers work. Continue reading Fifteen below, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes A frigid Winter Carnival and two nights of sit-com Animal House antics in a frat house tube room. What could go wrong? Continue reading ‘Brothers and Sisters’ and Deltas, oh my! 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes If submitting a manuscript or query is like a first kiss, then a writer’s first go-ahead letter is like the first “yes.” Or maybe not. Continue reading One great moment of triumph, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes My journals make references to many other works-in-progress, but not the play. Meanwhile, they offer plenty of life lessons in between. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 5
Reading Time: < 1 minutes For a writer, the first submission is like the first kiss. You know the time is right. You work yourself up to it. It’s tentative. It could go either way or not at all. Continue reading I’ll know I tried, 1979
Reading Time: 2 minutes I should have spent less time watching TV and more time doing my homework. That’s a dad talking, two lifetimes later. Continue reading Imagination is hopping, 1979
