On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American CenturyOur view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two CulturesAs for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American IconoclastWhat is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American IconoclastIt took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American OdysseyI asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey