Reply #19: How do you do it?

[abq e streeter]

Be this prolific, yet always, and I mean, ALWAYS have something to say that cuts right through the BS , and do it so cleverly and intelligently? I'd be embarrassed to be fawning over your writing like this if I didn't think just about everyone here has a similar reaction to your journal. I just wish you were as widely distributed as Molly Ivins was; obviously a hero to you, me , and many of us. Which brings me to this: I've recently re-established contact , and have been exchanging emails with, one of my best friends from college after 30 plus years. He's a Pulitzer prize winning reporter, and is married to the daughter of Ronnie Dugger of Molly's old home, the Texas Observer. I don't know his politics these days; we have just been talking about more personal stuff so far, our families etc. I'm guessing though , that he's still quite progressive, and a profound compassion for humanity comes through in his writing, which was cited when he won the Pulitzer...Anyway, unless you for some reason, would prefer that I don't , I was planning on mentioning your writing, and the high regard with which so many people hold it, to him in one of our upcoming email exchanges, just as a part of mentioning DU and my recently begun participation in it.