Brief musings about storytelling each day (or as frequently as I can muster). June 14, 2026 TODAY WE VEER into philosophy a bit, though I do aim to remain grounded in the real world of storytelling. One evening in 1989, when I was 21 and my dreams of being a foreign correspondent were just beginning to gestate, I sat in the apartment of my then-role model and watched a very intense journalism movie called The Year of Living Dangerously. At least, I thought it was a journalism movie at first.