A Longish YouTube Piece and 20 Short Ones * Piers Morgan Confronts Murderer Amber Wright Run Time: 45 minutes This is haunting: A 15-year-old who lured…
Why I Do What I Do From KR: “I want you to know that since finding you through the Early to Rise newsletter back in 2001, you have been and continue to…
How Smart Are Crows? An animated TED-Ed lesson about the incredible intelligence of corvids and how they express their aptitude for many things
I’m back from a week in Myrtle Beach, golfing with nine of my high school friends. Well… that’s not true. I hardly golfed at all. Just nine holes on…
I was in Myrtle Beach last week for a get-together with nine of my high-school friends. We’ve been meeting there every October for about the last 30…
“If Trump pulls off this peace treaty, will you say he did a great thing?” I asked. He knew, and I knew, that he could not. TDS is a malady that…
This poem was written by Oliver Baez Bendroff, the author of three poetry collections, including Consider the Rooster, a finalist for the 2024 National…
Acting Counts: Lackluster… to Not Bad… to Spine-Tingling I’ve made three movies. One was so bad I destroyed it after I showed it to my 12-year-old son…
Hint: It’s on the outside of the building where I have my main office. It was inspired a bit by Diego Rivera’s mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in…
The Man Who Invented Golf If you want to know why so many perfectly good athletes are never happy with their golf scores and are frequently seen…
Apologies in advance to readers who tell me that they wish I wouldn’t write about political and social issues. I’ll be back with lighter and brighter…
I’m writing this on Friday, October 3. Two days earlier, I wrote the following in my Journal, in anticipation of writing a longish essay about the…
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