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- Rex Smith: Don’t settle for a simple storyAugust 22
- One of my college classmates planned to become a newspaper reporter, but instead he has grown up to be a United States senator. I can’t figure it out. He seemed so thoughtful. I could have seen it coming, you know, because there are similarities in the way some journalists and politicians approach their jobs. For one [...]
- Rex Smith: Beyond weather, climate truthAugust 15
- Some truths are harder to confront than others. It’s easier for me to concede that I’m not a very good tennis player (though I wish that weren’t true) than to face up to what I don’t do as well as I should in my daily work. And changing our minds, once we have them made [...]
- Rex Smith: Stories for my kid’s generationAugust 1
- There’s a picture of my daughter that I love, snapped when she was a tiny 3-year-old. She is sitting on a baseboard heater holding a newspaper that she is pretending to read. How could a dad who is an editor not cherish that scene? Last week, improbably, that little girl turned 15. In the last dozen [...]
- Rex Smith: Good sense trumps speedJuly 25
- Great athletes generally have quicker reaction time than most of us. A major league batter has about four-tenths of a second to react to a fastball. An Indycar driver’s mortal life may depend upon an instantaneous judgment at 225 mph about the trajectory of a nearby spinout. Most of us don’t have jobs that require such [...]
- Rex Smith: Downturn aside, on the jobJuly 18
- Only one window was open at the post office the other day, so I stood in line a long time to buy stamps. At a restaurant the next night, I drained a water glass twice while waiting — and waiting — for a waiter to bring dinner. What both incidents suggested to me, aside from a [...]