Anecdotal Evidence

Valentine’s Day invites declarations of love and their opposite. As Dylan, the reliable author of anti-love songs puts it, “You've got a...

I moved to Montpelier, Ohio, a small town in the northwest corner of the state, late in the summer of 1977. My mental model for such a place...

“Do you carry a notebook around with you? Do you write things down right away.”   No, and no. I’m not that organized. My mind operates lik...

I interviewed Carl Sagan about three years before his death in 1996. The astronomer was charming, patient, friendly and one of the most arti...

A reader asks why “Anecdotal Evidence”? I don’t have a definitive answer. When I covered courts as a newspaper reporter I would hear lawyers...

Already people are complaining about spring’s tardiness. This is Houston, where a week or two of cold, even a few brief dips below freezing,...

“I use books to help me remember my life, to give that life fuller sense and broader contour.” Some years I remember mostly for the books ...