The last time I saw Frank Barrows, just a few weeks ago, he wanted to talk about journalism and basketball. He always wanted to talk about journalism and basketball. Sometimes […]
My mom, Virginia Tomlinson, died a year ago today. The schedule of my book tour happened to send us down to my home ground in south Georgia over the weekend, […]
Seven years ago, I first spoke to my agent about writing a book on my life as a fat man. Four years ago — after three years of being afraid […]
We went to see the Mister Rogers documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Everything we read and heard warned us to be ready to cry. One friend told me she […]
Like a lot of you, I’m guessing, I binged on Anthony Bourdain over the weekend after hearing of his suicide on Friday. I Netflixed a few episodes of his show […]
Guys: My book, “The Elephant In the Room” — which I think I’ve been telling you about for 45 years or so — is one step closer to publication. The […]