When The Beer Is Gone, So Are

Sometimes A Flat-footed Sentence Is What Serves, So You Don't Get All Writerly: 'he Opened The Door.' There, It's Open.

Just Because You Have Stopped Sinking Doesn't Mean You're Not Still Underwater.

I Think Of The Chimp, The One With The Talking Hands.

Obviously, In Journalism, You're Confined To What Happens. And The Tendency To Embellish, To Mythologize, It's In Us. It Makes Things More Interesting, A Closer Call. But Journalism Taught Me How To Write A Sentence That Would Make Someone Want To Read The Next One.

I Often Feel The Effects Of People Only After They Leave Me.