Steve Chawkins has been a writer and editor at newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and California. He retired in 2015 after 21 years at the Los Angeles Times.
This vivid, funny, terrific sentence could have been drawn from Lewis Carroll, but it’s from the middle of a deadline story on the frustrations of two “peace commissions” that were unable to keep the peace in Vietnam. The observer is a Polish Army … Read more
Forget making little dolls out of corn cobs or embroidering samplers with snippets of homey wisdom on them: If it’s a dying art you’re after, look to the news obituary. Obit writers don’t get to witness wars or famine, … Read more
