A friend sent me an announcement for a memoir contest sponsored by the Huffington Post and AOL. Top prize is a book contract with a major publishing house and $5,000. My friend knew I’d been thinking of writing a memoir about my four years abroad, first in England and Europe and the

I came across an interesting statistic about newspapers the other day.  Even in their current moribund condition, newspapers in their print and digital formats are still read by about 75 percent of the adult population. (“The Only Game in Town,” by David Sirota, Harper