Favorites

In 40-plus years as a journalist, I’ve written for a variety of newspapers and magazines to include The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Runner’s World, Parents, Equus, Ladies’ Home Journal and Family Circle.  Here, in no particular order, are some of my favorites.

Every Dog Has Its day

Jennifer Graham likes Jennifer Graham

The Socialist at the Dinner Table

Looking for Tucker Carlson in the Back Woods of Maine

The Rise and Fall of the Public Intellectual

How Secretariat Taught Me to Run

When your daughters hate horses

Amid the haters and the cancer, Nancy French just wants to make art

First we kill all the leprachauns

Within the hallowed walls of TB12

She died of liposuction, and nobody knows

Found in Boston: One pair of pants and an enduring sense of unity

OMG, the new blasphemy

When your car is your home

Party like it’s 1849

The redemption of Mark Sanford

The grass ceiling

Why Secretariat still matters

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