Julie Cart is a terrific, award-winning environmental reporter, whose work I have been reading and admiring for many years in the Los Angeles Times. Today she tells, on the front page, the story of her father's secret life as a project manager in a top secret surveillance satellite system. But there's more, and it's mostlyContinue reading “A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page”
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Country music helps mourner find father’s ghost
If there's one thing you learn working with story ideas in the movie industry, as I did for many years, is that people, ordinary people, desperately want to hear from the realm beyond life. ("The undiscovered country," as Hamlet memorably put it, "from whose bourn no traveler returns.") Here's a spooky, memorable example from PostSecret: Continue reading “Country music helps mourner find father’s ghost”
Bill Clinton: Does Mitt Romney have father issues?
Bill Clinton reacts to Romney's now-infamous 2008 call to Let Deroit Go Bankrupt. "Every time I hear Mr. Romney talk about this, I think his daddy must be turning over in his grave." Romney has already indicated that he disrespects his father's politics. Could his scorn for the American auto industry also be rooted inContinue reading “Bill Clinton: Does Mitt Romney have father issues?”
Out walking with my father: Of course I remember
A new poem from Adam Zagajewski is always an occasion, and this one, blessedly, Threepenny Review put up for all to see: Out Walking with My FatherGrunwald Square, Gliwice My father remembers next to nothing. With slight exceptions.Do you remember fixing transmitters for the Home Army?Of course I remember. Were you afraid?I don’t remember. WasContinue reading “Out walking with my father: Of course I remember”
Kit Stolz 