About

I’m a Capricorn, I like college football and long walks in the rain… wait, this ain’t the Craigslist personals. Somehow the Charlotte Observer has let me stick around for 19 years, the last 11 as a columnist. And in a shocking lapse in judgment, the Nieman Foundation at Harvard awarded me a Nieman Fellowship this year. So we’re up here in Cambridge, MA until the spring of ‘09. “We” being me; my wife, Alix Felsing, without whom none of this would ever have happened; and our yellow-Lab mutt, Fred, without whom none of this would have been quite as smelly.