Remember that terrible time right after school when you wondered if you'd ever find your right and proper place in the world? My first boss Larry Ragan lived that nightmare for 17 years. Here's his story (and mine).
If You Check Your Phone At Dinner, That’s The Last Dinner You’ll Have With Me
I've been waiting since Feb. 21 to find the time to sufficiently tee off on an article published that day, titled, "I Will Check My Phone At Dinner And You Will Deal With It."
(That wasn't as hard as I thought.)
On fame
Interviewing a number of ex-Chicago pols this week for a newspaper story on Mayor Daley's departure. Some of these people, I must interview in the evening. Scout must be quiet during the calls. To impress her of the importance of the directive, I told her they were "famous people."
"Wow! Like Bieber?"