Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
the more humdrum aspects of life do not make for gripping reading. To render them compelling, a writer must describe the universal in eloquent and evocative prose. Alas, Frey's writing suggests that this was not an option, and he came up with something else.
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?