Good Stories, Well Told

Sorry for the blog trouble this morning. Go check out Nancy Nall's post on Colombus Dispatch columnist Mike Harden over on nancynall.com (which you should look at often):



I always called Mike the best colum­nist you never heard of. A gifted writer and com­pas­sion­ate reporter, he was a throw­back to an ear­lier era, before news­pa­pers embar­rassed them­selves try­ing to be a "prod­uct" that you "use," and were con­tent to be some­thing to read. He always told me the role model for his life's work was Jim Bishop, another guy you've prob­a­bly never heard of, but take my word for it — he used to be big. It's the papers that…