Well, you've landed here ... pull up a chair and prop up your feet awhile.

I'm a columnist for the Charlotte Observer, currently taking a year off on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Click the navigation bar above and you'll find some of my stories (from the newspaper and other places), along with a bio, my blogs, and other stuff I've stashed here and there.

If that's not enough -- and Lord knows it probably should be -- you can follow me on Facebook.

And if you want to say hey, e-mail me here: tommy at tommytomlinson dot com (separated to dodge the spam robots -- just put it back together like a normal address).

By the way, if you're looking for the state senator from Pennsylvania, you can find him here, and, uh, good luck in the next election.

Y'all take it easy. Talk to you soon.