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Becoming Kay Graham
In February 1970, through a combination of persistence and luck, I came to work at the Washington Post. It so happened that my name is the same as the man…
Read MoreWill The Washington Post Die in Darkness?
“All the President’s Men” was on TCM the other night. Sadly, ironically, that title would now have to include Jeff Bezos. His latest turn toward the right, informing staff that…
Read MoreAmidst the Trump/Musk tsunami, it’s still Black History Month!
Remember Black History Month? President Ford formally recognized it in 1976 during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial “to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every…
Read MoreIs Meditation the Answer to Trump 2.0?
These are the times that try men’s souls. — Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 The other day, Sally Quinn, writing in The Washington Post, where she made her…
Read MoreRecalling Air Florida Flight 90, the last fatal airplane crash in the Potomac
Nothing seemed to work that night. Air Florida Flight 90 bound for Tampa with its ice-laden wings had attempted to take off in a blinding snowstorm from National Airport. Instead…
Read MoreBirthright Citizenship: It’s Personal
My grandparents were immigrants. My parents were both born in this country and thereby became “birthright citizens,” a right affirmed by the 14th amendment to the Constitution enacted in 1868…
Read MoreRecalling another inauguration and a hostage homecoming
It was another time of transition. A one-term president, accepting his electoral defeat, was on his way out. The president-elect in the then normal course of events became the new…
Read MoreAnd then there were none
The formerly local Washington Post… Say it ain’t so! But, sadly, the Washington Post‘s wonderful Petula Dvorak has just published her final Metro column. In it she recounts several of…
Read MoreNostalgic for “legacy” media?
“I guess I’ll get the papers and go home.” This 1946 hit, recorded by the Mills Brothers and others, hits home. It strikes a melancholy note as print newspapers shrink…
Read MoreIndifferenza
INDIFFERENZA The word is etched in large letters on stone at Milan’s Shoah Memorial, a stark reminder of a time from December 1943 to January 1945 when 774 Italian Jews…
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