Status Updates From The Heart of the Order (Pen...

Revisiting a middle-school favorite that I *know* won't let me down.

"In sports, poise is often nothing more than the ability to row backward toward a goal, focusing on each stroke so intently that we ignore the finish line until we are past it."

"An English professor once wrote on a paper of mine, by way of critiquing my naïve notion that people were pretty much fully formed by voting age, 'The biggest shock in the world is watching how much your peers change. In twenty years, you won't believe it.'"

"Newspaper work can be a sort of writer's diary, overall notebook to himself: This Is How It Seems Today. Only with time, and the variety of perspectives that it's bound to create, are we allowed to step back and see people and institutions as they transform before us."