Host NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday Author of current bestseller Unforgettable & other books. Special Contributor CBS Sunday Morning. Husband, father, Cub fan.
Caroline's Open Bowl is a tribute to @LizStrout Not Olive's Breakfast (OLIVE AGAIN). Healthy! Good!
On this sad Jackie Robinson Day, I’ll read from my book about JR’s first meeting with Branch Rickey-
@JeremySchaap As a scared young reporter in Chicago, I interviewed Justice Page when he was a middle linebacker. Great man in all ways. Revered his wife, Diane, with whom he founded the Page Education Foundation.
“Let's really look at one another!...It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed... Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you..." Happy Birthday, Thornton Wilder
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I’ve been staggered all day from interviewing Guatemalan woman who had her 3 yr old boy taken from her arms at the border while he slept. He awoke in a detention center, thought his mother had given him up. US officials did this. Is this America? She’ll be on our show Saturday.
The words of @Pontifex about migrants and refugees pierce your soul: "It is injustice that turns them away from places where they might have hope for a dignified life, but instead find themselves before walls of indifference."
Did really have no appearances on Veteran's Day? A 5 minute motorcade ride from Arlington National Cemetery? What is possibly more important than an hour of his time on this day?
Did @POTUS just refuse to denounce white-supremacist groups?
Just saw @Scaramucci say there are more people with COVID-19 around @POTUS than legitimate vote fraud complaints.
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