Punxsutawney Phil for President!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans usually feel they are forced to choose between the elephant and the donkey. But what about the groundhog? Continue reading Punxsutawney Phil for President!
These are some of the things that bring me joy. I hope they’ll do the same for you.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Americans usually feel they are forced to choose between the elephant and the donkey. But what about the groundhog? Continue reading Punxsutawney Phil for President!
Reading Time: 2 minutes The more I learn about them, the more it becomes clear that this invention was more than a “let’s make a wallpaper!” moment. Continue reading Happy Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day 2024!
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had the same premonition that a colleague had six months earlier. It seemed to be the same still, small voice that guided me there in the first place. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: On my way out?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The hardest part was realizing that my colleague on the same rung of the corporate ladder would soon be my supervisor. My ego didn’t take that well. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Promotion envy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1980 election featured a Democratic incumbent whose first term was rocked by runaway inflation, a gas shortage, and a Mideast hostage situation. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: New Hampshire primary
Reading Time: 3 minutes Film critic Roger Ebert called this film “one of the most audacious films ever made – in its grandiose vision, and in the cozy English way it’s expressed.” Continue reading Budding Writer, 1980: ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
Reading Time: 3 minutes In which our hero enlists the assistance of Google’s Bard AI to explain the meaning and history of an old saying he never quite got. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1980: Of cats and kings
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now I can’t help but worry whether there is or isn’t anything wrong — I’d hate to appear silly, but I’d hate even more to appear dead. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Worried Parent Syndrome
Reading Time: 2 minutes Being the self-important satirist that I was, I enlisted a fictional critic to review the reviewer. I named him after you-know-who. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: Woodward N. Bernstein
Reading Time: 2 minutes An award-winning newspaper? A publishable collection of short stories and a novelette? Peace on Earth and good will to all men? Tall orders. Continue reading Journeyman Journalist, 1980: New Year’s Resolutions