I like the mailbag. You give me the topic and I pontificate for 1,000 words. Today we have another disguised and distorted letter from an unidentifiable and possibly fictional reader: I would love to ...

“Those who do not weep, do not see.” ―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Before we can express our needs through language, we resort to crying to survive our infancy. As we go through life, we find other ...

NG: No, I think I didn’t learn how to cry because, um – and it took me a long time to write this particular book. Um, my father was, um, I think a little on the crazy side and, uh, if you ask me what ...