Adolescents Are Like Cockroaches: They Come Out

Leaders Are People We As Followers Want To Regard With Awe As The Fullest Flowering Of Our Own Possibilities.

My Mother Had Demonstrated That The Best Way To Defeat The Numbing Ambivalence Of Middle Age Is To Surprise Yourself - By Pulling Off Some Cartwheel Of Thought Or Action Never Even Imagined At A Younger Age.

Sex And Older Women Used To Be Considered An Oxymoron, Rarely Mentioned In The Same Breath.

We Must Be Willing To Change Chairs If We Want To Grow. There Is No Permanent Compatibility Between A Chair And A Person. And There Is No One Right Chair. What Is Right At One Stage May Be Restricting At Another Or Too Soft. During The Passage From One Stage To Another, We Will Be Between Two Chairs. Wobbling No Doubt, But Developing.

Journalism Today Is Obviously In A Major Transition. Going To Journalism School, Learning How To Write, Working Your Way Up In A Little Paper In Decatur, Georgia And Then Moving To Atlanta And Then Maybe To New York: It's Just Over. You Have To Have A Whole Other Set Of Skills Now. You Have To Be A Videographer, You Have To Do Social Media. You Can't Do A Long, Thoughtful, Insightful Piece If You Don't Have The Time To Do Reporting, Particularly Reporting Around Somebody Who Doesn't Want To Be Known Or An Issue That Doesn't Want To Reveal Itself.