Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026 – Today we rushed home from the cabin to attend the welcoming reception for this year’s crop of WPI Fellows—“WPI” being shorthand for “World Press Institute.” Founded over 60 years ago here in St. Paul, WPI produces an annual fellowship program for foreign journalists interested in learning about American news media and …
OCTOER 8, 2024 – Among the books on the floor-to-ceiling shelves in the den of our house when I was growing up was the No. 1 best seller in 1958, Only in America by Harry Golden. I never read it, but I’m sure my parents had: they read pretty much every book that wound up …