View from the North 40: Not all weeks and columns are created equally

I don’t like writing about the craft of writing, the process of writing, for a variety of reasons — top among them being that I don’t want to make myself look stupid as I pretend to know what I’m doing here.

We’ve all been around those people who read the Reader’s Digest condensed version of an article on nuclear physics and then they hit the lecture circuit of all the dinner parties and casual gatherings of friends and family, expounding on the virtue of nuclear-whatever like they graduated from MIT with the qualifying doctorate — as a 14-year-old child prodigy.

Then I imagine a scene in my h...