This column has also allowed me to interview authors, experts and professors of all sorts in the past 14 years and to share their ideas here. For example, I spoke with author Glennon Doyle in 2013 ...

David Murdock on 18 years of writing this column and how he has changed subjects and styles through the years. ... for example, I’ve been writing more about what I’m reading than anything else.

I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had writing a column in the 27 years I’ve been a Cape Cod Times ...

I should have made clear that AI chatbots did not write the column, as some thought. The prose the chatbots churned out was pretty limp, and the essays contained errors.

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