Success is overrated

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Something ba-a-a-a-d’s going to happen to me. I just know it. And I’m thinking, for the record … it’s going to be really ba-a-a-a-d. Really, really ba-a-a-ad. Because I’m due. Overdue. (Make that way, WAY overdue.) Don’tcha hate how you get that feeling sometimes – that something untoward…

Portrait

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I can understand why members of the House of Delegates are so interested in commissioning a portrait of now-former interim House Speaker Lacey Putney, I-Bedford. You know, so that they can then hang it on up on the wall. Right there in the Capitol. Because Putney … Um…

Violate this airspace

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham You’re out flying around the nation’s capital on a pleasant, sunny Sunday afternoon, minding your own business. And then out of the blue (literally), an F-16 sidles up next to your Beech 35 – thinking you’re some sort of terrorist or something. Aha. Very good. Yes? No ….

Will you marry me … again?

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Three years ago this month, I did just about the stupidest thing I think I could have ever done in my life. I proposed to my wife. Wait a second. That didn’t come out right. (I’m in the doghouse, big time, and I’m what? Like, 50 words into…