Like many people, in the first months of Covid, I transformed my social life from meals and movies, into long walking-talks with friends. But by early 2021, I pretty much ended those excursions. Life was too messed up, and I didn’t feel like chatting. However, that created new problems: My friends were confused and hurt, […]

            Some years ago, a colleague at the financial magazine where I was working said to me, “No matter what else, we can always be proud that we’ve earned our living with our pens.”             Over the past four decades, my trusty pen (or laptop) has taken me on some convoluted journeys through FDA drug […]