Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

In a large room with nothing but a small, dark-stained wooden desk and fabric-covered swivel chair, I sat buried under legal documents. In desperation for the preservation of inner peace, I took a ...

In most newspapers, the news, entertainment, sports and features pages are where you get to see and understand what is going on in the world. The opinion page is where you get to consider how to ...

As if life weren’t depressing enough these days, The Washington Post had a real pick-me-up of an article last week that about ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

A farewell — and a thank-you — to the readers who read, wrote back, disagreed, and made nearly four decades at the Globe a dream job. You usually know when it’s time to go, and for me, that time has ...