At the knee of her writer mother, Nora Ephron was taught the secret of the writer’s life: Everything is copy. She learned this sufficiently well to get a best-selling book and Meryl Streep movie out of a humiliatingly unfaithful husband. … Continue reading
Hayden Keith Monroe
Merle Miller said there are two kinds of people, those who stay home and those who leave. I might add a corollary that there are two kinds of those who leave, the ones running away from something and the ones … Continue reading
Almost all the commonsense adages about politics are pragmatic. Like, “Politics is about addition, not subtraction,” or “All politics is local,” “or “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” In other words, it’s … Continue reading