As someone who writes for a living, I find the concept of large language models quite off-putting. Not only do these AI ...

Opinion writing is famous for a host of microlabels — columns, editorials, op-eds, guest essays, letters to the editor and even cartoons. While each of these pieces serves a distinct purpose, their ...

I’ve been doing the daily schlep down the 405 to Irvine for more than two years now. I have accepted my fate, and found ways to make the highway hour a bit more bearable. Listening to that much NPR ...

As I was sitting around the other day, procrastinating about writing this column, it occurred to me that if I just got busy I could knock one out in an hour or so. After a few more games of solitaire, ...

On Dec. 3, I’ll mark 35 years of writing this weather column for The Columbian — a sentence that still surprises me when I put it on paper. When I filed my very first column back in December of 1990, ...