One of the difficult parts about being a journalist is that your mistakes are so public.
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What I Learned From The West Wing, Its Actors, And The Network
What an astute viewer can learn about 'real life' when a show is well-crafted and well-acted.
Read More »TV Review: The Daily Show – Week Ending May 7
One of the weaker weeks in memory.
Read More »Why Writing About Music Is Hard For Me
I wrote about everything from how to build a meth lab to serial killers but I steered clear of music.
Read More »Please Send Me To My Room, Mom, So I Can Read
Sharing the joy of a great book is surely one of life’s thrills.
Read More »TV Review: The Daily Show – Week Ending April 30
How anger, satire work as interview tactics
Read More »Shoes, Paper Clips, and Other Ways of Remembering the Holocaust
I worried children wouldn’t understand the significance of the Holocaust. The exhibit of 3,000 tiles by American schoolchildren at the Holocaust Museum quashed that concern.
Read More »TV Review: The Daily Show – Week Ending April 23
The interviews were better than usual this week.
Read More »Shakespeare’s Birthday Party – A Fictional Tale
I’d heard criticism about the book by my namesake, William Shakespeare, from some of my colleagues in day care.
Read More »Life As A Klutzy, Unlucky Man
Those pants have been retired. Punished for their bad behavior.
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