This is one of the sidebars in Ronnie Polaneczky's excellent piece on "Empathetic Interviewing." The article appears in the spring 2023 print issue of the Society of Professional Journalists' [SPJ] Quill magazine. Whether you're working in daily meet-the-deadline journalism, its…
Kudos to the Washington Post travel section on "life as a hotdogger" -- driving the Wienermobile. A dream job, like piloting a Zamboni around NHL rinks. I was triply blessed to have Frank Papp as my coach in the always…
Having been lucky enough to actually attend these games as a fan, getting paid to do it .... Well, it's work, but what lucky work it is. Need to re-read the Boswell's [Tom's, not Jim's] classic: Why Time begins with…
Will be interesting to see how the Navy handles Maury's work on the pilot charts in the future. The naming commission correctly recommends striking his name from vessels and buildings for siding with the Confederacy. But his efforts at the…
Love Strand, but the last time we were there -- the spring before the plague, I was not interested in the outside offerings. This visiting Virginian was actually fixated on seeing what "Books by the Mile" had to offer to…
We found "The Baby" in the King Cake on the second slice. Slightly more than 24 hours after picking up the King Cake from Heidelberg Bakery in Arlington, Lillian's slice contained the Baby King. [Obviously, she will host the next…
A Geographical Identity Crisis Has Fallen on the Far Reaches of Fairfax A mighty wind [no, not the folk mockumentary] raged across the region in recent weeks blowing down critically important signage at an important juncture in the neighborhood of…
I can't account for another person's taste, but this Shepherd's pie bought about noon Friday at one of the two Safeways in the Sacred Precincts of Burke, almost certainly would not please many palates. What a surprise awaited us when…
Yessirre, An Issue Devoted to Many Things Texas. Now if only Garden and Gun, explained the old "Drive Friendly" signs or the "Don't Mess with Texas" mentality, it would have been truly insightful. For all you Texas Ex's l, currently…
Since we are nation that treasures "a day for everything," tomorrow, January 16 marks "Religious Freedom Day," which in being contorted in every which-way by today's American Savanarolas and Comstocks. Under that banner, they pontificate with holier-than-thou zealous rhetoric from…