After reading Robert B. Parker’s novel Looking for Rachel Wallace, published in 1980, I fell hard for the creator of Spenser.

Politicians of the Reagan era scuttled a time-honored tradition. They gutted the media doctrines of fairness, equal time and anti-monopoly practices.

So symptomatic of his life, it seems there’s not been much notice this year of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest authors, Herman Melville.

When fall comes down off the shelf

Twenty-six years ago, computer entrepreneur Mitch Kapor and I worked on a PBS pilot together.

If there’s one benefit of passing 75, it’s the right to keep your shoes on going through airport security.

I was the editor of my high school newspaper in Denver, Colorado — the East High Spotlight.

Because Emily Dickinson lay in wait

It’s June which means it is time for high school and college grads to swamp the job market.

When Paula Lyons was young, single and adventuresome, she went on a whim to Buenos Aires.