William Shatner Now Oldest Man to Go In Space: ‘Galloping Around the Cosmos Is a Game for the Young’
The oldest person to ever go into space? William Shatner, at age 90, said he hoped when he looked out the window, there’s no one looking back
Our son was a bit embarrassed to ask if it was real or a fake news hoax: Did William Shatner go into space at age 90? Yes, it’s real. He did it.
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Life in our high-speed social media age is sometimes like walking three dogs, each going in totally different directions
Life’s tug of war offers two ways to win: pull harder — or drop the rope.
Is your phone blowing up? All sorts of people pulling you in every direction? It’s kind of like walking three dogs at once (I’ve done this, see photo above).
Each wants to go a…
How to Be an Editor: Get Your Words Moving In the Same Direction, From Stillwater to Roaring Rapids?
The best possible editor is a little bit like General George Patton, a juggler, a neurosurgeon — and a traffic cop
Water and vehicles sit still, or move. A minor scene in one of the greatest films illustrates precisely how a good editor gets words moving (with hardly anyone noticing).
The 1970 film Patton shows General George Patton becoming one of history’s greatest generals, focusing on moving more men and material…
A century of new photos shows one thing remains the same since 1921: Americans love to arrange their homes to worship boxes
Most rooms are decorated to make TVs and the latest technology their focal point. For at least 100 years, Americans have idolized the newest technology.
The idols and technology change with time, but the pattern is easy to spot: people staring at a box seeming to provide everything they need…
Barron’s great gift? Showing how many of your habits and values are incredibly Catholic: ‘To be deep in history in to cease to be Protestant’
Bishop Robert Barron, a master at showing the hidden Catholicism permeating Western culture, made his best video describing James Bond.
There are countless examples of “the Robert Barron method,” including his great love for the music of Bob Dylan. …
It’s so easy to start to love everyone — and so easy to fall into the pride trap and push them all away in an instant
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The valet welcomed us like VIPs, asked our names, and spoke into a walkie-talkie, “Mr. Serwach is here. He’s coming up now.”
I loved that small gesture that made me feel important, reminding me how easy it is for one person to turn the ordinary into…
‘You can only do so much pretending before you become the thing you’re pretending to be’
The first rule of good writing and storytelling: a story must “ring true,” even if it’s fiction. Never, ever try to pretend you’re something you’re not.
Once someone knows your true identity, they will never trust any writer claiming, “we’ve reinvented this person for the new world of today.”
The one lasting lesson William Shatner just taught the Star Trek generation
If you remember the 1970s, you grew up on constant “Star Trek” reruns. So, we were humbled seeing our hero William Shatner go into space Wednesday.
The world is marveling over a 90-year-old actor (who looks 50) getting into a rocket, going into space, and returning. …
The politics song sung by all sides: ‘no, they can’t take that away from me’ — what Red, Blue both fight to conserve
When Joe Biden arrived in conservative Livingston County, Michigan, 1,500 protesters greeted him with a giant display of curse signs.
A giddy 30-something, caught up in the euphoria, turned to his buddy, asking, “What exactly are we trying to conserve?”
And that may be the one thing all sides have…
Our cedar house in the woods surrounded by beautiful nature seems like a writing, remote worker paradise: What could go wrong?
Remote worker startup culture took over everywhere in 2020. The woodpecker mockingly laughed.
Like a Chevy Chase film or Road Runner cartoon (with me in the Wile E. Coyote role), but of course, it started out far more romantic.
My beloved lured me into becoming “the folks who live on…
