During our second conversation, over coffee, it came out that what Dan wanted most at 36 was to grow up. He had been addicted to marijuana for so long he had missed out on maturing as a man. I thought we were going to talk about his public speaking club. I hadn’t thought that topic …
Eyes widen at parties when I tell people I am a ghostwriter, as if I’ve admitted I do something sneaky and slightly nefarious that’s barely legal. What could be more interesting? This happened the other night. I answered a lot of questions. People think this is rare and exotic. You are reading ghost writers all …
I was ready to go home at the end of my work day when I got a call about a possible mutiny at sea. November 1990. We were in the middle of perhaps the last great American newspaper war, between my morning Anchorage Daily News and the evening Anchorage Times. Well-funded owners were throwing everything …
