At Saturday brunch not long ago, I sat down over pancakes and eggs to enjoy the company of an old friend and his recently graduated 22 year-old son. The son was on his way to graduate school on a full scholarship at a large university and his father was basking in the glow of his off-
One of my blog readers emailed an article from the New York Times to me, recently. His note said, “the parts I read sounded as though you might have written them.” I could see why. I’d covered the story of J. K. Rowling’s recent mystery novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling in a recen