Life
It Came Back
In the winter I wrote about our cat’s cancer. His surgery was successful in that it removed the tumor and gave Fat Kitty his life back. I thought about writing an update in the late spring, when he seemed perfect except for the shock of whitish hair growing over the spot where the surgeon removed [...]
Election Day
The man behind me in line at my polling place this morning told me that he had been casting his ballot at the same spot since 1976 and had never seen such turnout. The line was long – it took me about 75 minutes from start to finish – but it lessened as the morning [...]
Wasteful Writing
During my time covering Congress, whenever I was faced with writing a story that didn’t exactly grab my interest, I would think of the time, in 1994, when I wrote a magazine story on landfill management. Tonight while stumbling around the Web I found that piece, entitled “Landfill Management Faces A High-Tech Future,” on the [...]
Called to the Show
Two and a half years ago, I wrote a “dream description” of a job I’d like to have. Last week, I got that job: beginning Nov. 15, I’ll be the database manager for news research at the Washington Post. That means I’ll be acquiring and analyzing data for stories, maintaining and upgrading the newsroom intranet [...]
Antietam and America
On Monday, Leslye and I drove out past Frederick to Sharpsburg, Maryland, the site of the Civil War battle at Antietam. We took a ranger-led tour of key portions of the battlefield, including The Cornfield, a patch of ground fought over repeatedly on the morning of Sept. 17, 1862, and Burnside’s Bridge, where several hundred [...]
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