That time I met Edward Teller

As the closing credits of “Oppenheimer” rolled after Harris and I took in a rare Tuesday night movie back in July, I casually mentioned that I thought Benny Safdie did an interesting job portraying Edward Teller. Oh, and that I met Edward Teller in 1988 during my freshman year in college. The incidental revelation stopped … Continue reading That time I met Edward Teller →

Nelson Mandela and my historic misstep

Interns notoriously misstep so often that their ineptitude, no matter the field, is a cliché. I lived up to that cliché when a false step during a journalism internship for Knight Ridder newspapers’ Washington bureau in the fall of 1991 became one of the strangest things to ever happen to me. That internship proved to … Continue reading Nelson Mandela and my historic misstep →