A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page

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”

The beautiful secret: Robinson Jeffers

From an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times: [Robinson] Jeffers celebrated the "transhuman magnificence" of nature, the beautiful things both vast and near that can provide even a 21st century reader with solace, even if we are often a muddled, ugly species and even if all things, as they do, fade away.  Don't often hearContinue reading “The beautiful secret: Robinson Jeffers”