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Long before the raft of high-profile Fred Rogers documentaries, biopics, books and remembrances, author Amy Hollingsworth’s, “The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers,” was the lone mainstream tome to explore the connections between his upbringing, faith, and luminous career. When Chris and I began making “Mister Rogers & Me,” Amy’s book was our North Star; it…

This election has been different for me than any prior. But not in the way you think. Thirty years ago, on the afternoon of my eighteenth birthday, I drove my silver, two-door, four-speed Volkswagen Rabbit to the Devon, Pennsylvania, post office and registered to vote. My experience as a journalist to that point included little…

Craig Mullaney’s bio is sort of ridiculous. High School Valedictorian. West Point Graduate. Rhode Scholar. Army Ranger. National Security Advisor. Tech Executive. Best Selling Author. You get it. I think of my friend, Craig, though, as one of very few guys with whom I can really talk to about really vulnerable things. Things like: trying…

[feedburner name=”name”]Stepping onto Meat Loaf’s 45-foot-long, rust brown 1980 Eagle XLT tour bus for a week-long sprint across the Midwest was the realization of my sixteen-year-old self’s wildest dreams. Unfortunately, I’d arrived nearly 20 years too late. The songs were still coming, the performances snd recordings improving. But I was well past thirty, many albums…

It’s difficult to remember now, deep into the post-Kardashian Age, but — even in the early days of the Internet — it was unusual to write in the first person. I spent years as a young writer trying to convince my then manager that bylines could connect writers to readers, that the stories behind our…

Twenty years ago, children’s television pioneer, Fred Rogers, shared a sentiment with me that changed my life. “I feel so strongly,” he said on the back porch of his modest Nantucket summer home, “That deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.” After his death, my brother, Christofer, and I set out…