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Was I really gone that long? My Substack dashboard says I last posted in August 2024, and I do recall writing that I would be going silent for a bit while I finished tweaking Enlightened Egomaniac. Sorry that “bit” was more than a year!
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OK, the guilt got to me — as in I feel bad that I’ve been silent in the six weeks since I wrapped up sharing draft chapters of “Enlightened Egomaniac”! That and the fact that we have some new readers (welcome and feel free to ask/opine!) ha...
Folks, this last chapter turned out to be the hardest, hence the week-long delay! The previous version focused on why Grif fits the bill of an enlightened egomaniac. But a few days ago I told myself: Anyone reading the book will have gather...
Even after all my research, there’s very little left by Tina or Van to help understand Grif or even how the three interacted as a family. What little there is I’ve put into this chapter, along with my sense that, even while dysfunctional, t...
OK, it’s time to speculate! Ever since I started researching Griffith Jenkins Griffith in 2019, I’ve tried to keep to a true journalist’s role by reporting what family archives and news accounts had to say about our subject. But all that re...
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I'm digging into history (researching and reporting forgotten figures) after a journalism career as a local reporter/foreign correspondent in Argentina, then a Seattle Times editor, and finally a msnbc.com editor/reporter.
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