Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself.
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – As we pick our words and our apples, we should remember that they can become so much more when they inspire others to be creative.
Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – The Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips” does a good job of telling the story, but the book carries the audience through his personal back story, family life, and an hour-by-hour account of the adventure with the Somali pirates.
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – One day it’s Robert Frost, the next day it’s an old hit by The Osmonds. It’s amazing what goes through your head when you’re up on a ladder picking apples.
Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Robert Frost tells of a weary farmer at the end of harvest. That farmer and this writer have a lot in common.