When My Son Was Born, And After

I Remember Three- And Four-week-long Snow Days, And Drifts So Deep A Small Child, Namely Me, Could Get Lost In Them. No Such Winter Exists In The Record, But That's How Ohio Winters Seemed To Me When I Was Little - Silent, Silver, Endless, And Dreamy.

I Went To A Football School, Which Meant That I Went To A University That Served Up Education And Was Simultaneously Operating A Sports Franchise.

I Rarely Listen To Commercial Radio, And When I Do, I'm Shocked By How Many Ads There Are, And How Annoying They Are, And How Bad The Radio Station Usually Is.

Most Writing Doesn’t Take Place On The Page; It Takes Place In Your Head.

Writing About Someone Well Known Removes That Obligation Of Defending It As A Subject, But It Also Means That Some Of The Surprise And Freshness Is Already Gone. It's So Different - In Some Ways Much Harder For Me.