Another great editorial by VERLYN KLINKENBORG.  The question is how does he do it week after week?

To Drive or Not to Drive: That Was Never the Question

Every now and then I meet someone in Manhattan who has never
driven a car. Some confess it sheepishly, and some announce it proudly. For
some it is just a practical matter of fact, the equivalent of not keeping a
horse on West 87th Street
or Avenue A. Still, I used to wonder at such people, but more and more I wonder
at myself.

I’ve been driving now for some 40 years, right
through what will come to be thought of as the heart of the Internal Combustion
Era. There is no learnable skill — aside perhaps from reading and writing —
that is more a part of me than driving. My senses have completely engulfed the
automobile,