Watching the coverage of the Chilean miners’ remarkable rescue, I was reminded of the shortest, most dangerous career of my life, as a hard rock miner high in the Rockies, working for the Climax Molybdenum Co. For a while I got a kick out of telling… Read full post »

 I never paid much attention to what my mother said, so when she said “Keep making faces like that and your face will get stuck,” I didn’t believe her. But on that point it turned out she was right, darn it all. And then Orson Welles came along and turned… Read full post »

 The Story of My Life – Time for a Rewrite?

It’s disorienting to find out that a personal story you hold dear to your heart actually happened some other way. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so much, but it’s always at least a little disorienting.  What&rsqu… Read full post »