Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.