Among the 63 abandoned posts listed under “drafts” in my WordPress blog account is a 1,480-word bear of a thing that I knocked out a couple weeks ago. It is — or was, I guess, or maybe more accurately, never will be — on the upcoming election. That drafts tab, let me point out, is… Read More Ooops
And now for something completely different. —**— We are in a coffee shop in the suburbs of Atlanta, one of those places with two or three thick wooden tables that seat six or eight people, a bunch of soft chairs in various tiny groupings throughout the space, a set of wooden stairs leading to nowhere,… Read More And Now …
In early May, I broke my finger, a boo-boo from bad basketball that, at the time, was certainly painful but, it seemed, destined to be not much more than that. In a few weeks time, I figured, I would be back on the court, back on the keyboard, back at everything I was doing (however… Read More On Allen Iverson and RatWoman
9:09 p.m. Today was one of those days. When you ask someone, either out of some misplaced sense of social duty or just as an innocuous greeting, “How are you?” and they say, “It’s been one of those days,” you understand. You know, from experience, that the emphasis in that answer isn’t on the word… Read More Days of Our Lives
Pretty much every morning, for the past two years, the First Amendment champions at The New York Times have kept us up to date on the grim totals of the pandemic with all manner of charts and graphs and statistics. In the 21st century business of journalism, this is known as “data journalism:” the gathering,… Read More The End is Near
The cold at Paul Brown Stadium that winter day, as I sat there shoulder-to-shoulder in utter climate shock, was the kind that instantly stiffens muscles and sinks so deeply into bones that it takes months to ooze out. Every exhale, every scream from the hardened crowd produced a cloud. Applause, when there was any, was… Read More Cincinnati … Super Bowl
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