Author: Nick

As a magician’s kid I grew up in a trailer, a 22-foot 1949 Travelo Model 20, pulled by a series of Hudsons worn out in a year. The first thing my father did after buying a new car was throw away the back seat so there was just enough space between the wardrobe and the…

When John Edwards announced his candidacy for president to an audience of 300, he found himself standing before a dead microphone. People complained they couldn’t hear, even in the front row. There are those only recently deceased who could remember when there was no such thing as a microphone. They gathered in numbers far exceeding…