My life is full these days. I love my wife more than I can say, and my children have blessed my life in ways I cannot completely comprehend. I also have a full plate at work. Bill Clinton is performing the Mother of All Political Bungee-Jumping Routines. Foreign economies have crept to the brink of collapse.
Terrorists continue plotting to disrupt our lives.
Religious and ethnic feuds are erupting again into warfare. This welter of sin and confusion has given the journalism business a big jolt. It also has forced many of us to think afresh about the relationships between law, politics, morality and civility. Yet another phenomenon has been taking place. The kids come to think of their dad more as a genial visitor than a father and husband.