Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

I started writing a news column for The Palm Beach Post in December of 1991, providing daily commentary about the WIlliam Kennedy Smith trial in West Palm Beach. The first day I did a poor Jimmy ...

I had a great idea for a column this week. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. After about 20 minutes of deep soul-searching, it occurred to me that some of you might be wondering how I write these columns.

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You can’t tell now, but I am writing this column in longhand. I’m on a tropical island (don’t hate me) without access to a computer screen (ditto) and composing a column this way is an enlightening — ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...