Masters of Golf, and Art

One much younger, at 26, than the other who at 86, died at his home in Manhattan. The young man is Charl Schwartzel, an unknown to most of us until yesterday when he climbed Mount Olympus, the green slopes of Augusta National and as Masters Champion reigns supreme. The other, older Master, was a film director, Sidney Lumet, who late in life received an Oscar. One of those...

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On this night of the NCAA Basketball Championship a longer game is played and,most of the time, lost

Having been a writer for fifteen years I’ve played the not so fun game of waiting, a game most writers play. The difference between us and those shooting hoops in Houston tonight for NCAA immortality is that we play a very slow, very passive game. We wait, and then wait some more. Often months, a lot of months, and what we get when we finally get that treasured missive...

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