Five years ago this week, I wrote the first “The Way I See It” column. That’s a lot of me, and a lot of you, our reader, ...

Trying to write weekly now makes me always on the lookout for the stories that are out there. It has also made me a better ...

“In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust, the modernist French novel published in 1913 exploring themes of the human ...

Writing a newspaper column is easy. Just open a vein and bleed. The origin of that description varies. Famed sports columnist Red Smith is most often credited with the characterization of repeatedly ...

A first encounter with Jimmy Breslin, the primacy of private life, and what the great newspaper columnists understood before the form began to disappear.

What should I write about? That’s a perpetual question, one I’ve found harder and harder to answer. I’m about to hit my 25th ...

2025 now has only one week left. The first article of this column was published on January 8 of this year, marking exactly one year since its debut. Looking back, my time this year has been divided ...

We had just rolled back into Minnesota after a long haul from Texas, one of those trips where the road signs repeat themselves like they’re trying to hypnotize you. By the time we pulled into the ...

Veteran Austin journalist Mike Kelley, who for 20 years wrote a humor column for the American-Statesman, died unexpectedly in his sleep Sunday at his Wimberley home. He was 81. "He wasn't loud," said ...