Old Friends
My nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling
Read MoreMy nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling
Read MoreIt’s no secret that I spend a lot of time on the internet. Maybe too much. Who knows? I have
Read MoreApparently Amy Chua has got people up in arms with her controversial “Tiger Mother” concept of child rearing. Having run
Read MoreDecember 1967, with the bleak gray harshness of a Michigan winter just beginning to bite. I was hanging out at
Read MoreJust when it seemed Sarah Palin had, pardon the expression, dodged a bullet with respect to her culpability in lowering
Read MoreWhat kind of idiots would take a leisurely stroll up the East River and across the Triborough Bridge to Queens
Read MoreThose looking for insight into why Jared Loughner did what he did could do worse than to look here. It’s
Read MoreThe flag flew at half-mast above a White House bathed in wan midwinter light as I walked past this morning.
Read MoreThis will be my tenth New Year’s Eve without drinking, my tenth consecutive year doing something that for most of
Read MoreI’d spent a bit of time in the UK before I realized the grotty industrial suburb at the end of
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