Many long years ago, when we were dating, Gus and I often went to dinner at the Rathskellar with our married friends Matt and Mary Osborne. They were our model of good things in marriage: they were young, and had fun together,…
When you’re meeting a person for the first time – at a Starbucks, say – it helps to know how to identify each other. “I’ll be easy to spot in a bright pink coat,” I emailed Nashville author Adam Ross….
I’m not even a Seahawks fan and I’m “stuck in a moment,” in the words of U2. I went to bed thinking about that final second down play and woke up thinking about it – that decision to pass 1…
You might find Friend of Bacon Brent Moody with a knife in hand at the office or after hours – but he’s no Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde! By day, it’s the instrument of a surgeon; by night, it’s the…
I had a bit of a shock when the New York Times named its top 10 books of 2014 – five fiction, five nonfiction. One of the works of fiction – Jenny Offill’s Department of Speculation – was off my…