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Back in the mid-1980s, I was summoned to Bronx Criminal Court to serve as a juror. I drew a gun possession case in which two young men riding in a...
There isn’t much that leaves me gobsmacked. Chalk it up to nearly seven decades of observing my fellow humans, particularly the last decade or so...
The death last year of Bobo the giraffe was a sad affair. That feeling was rekindled when the story reemerged this past week with a U.S. Department...
A virus spreads, its method of transmission is unknown, testing is sporadic, results are not shared with enough speed or detail, government agencies...
A phrase making the rounds these days is wonderful in its fluidity: The path of totality. It sounds like a description of the damage field caused by a...
You scan the photos and smile. She's a little girl making funny faces. Sitting on your daughter's shoulders in a chicken fight. On the field in...
When we were kids, it seemed like we were always outdoors. There was a band of boys my age and we had a routine. One would go the back door of...
A photo sits on a shelf. Or hangs on a wall. Or nestles in a scrapbook with a collection that tells the story of a life. You study them for...
I remember the picture books, the broad pages and sweeping landscapes, the colorful depictions of Earth thousands of years ago, the rocks and ice...
A great many things came to mind for a great many people this past week when Mitch McConnell announced he would be stepping down this fall as leader...
Even admitting all the difficulty we humans have recognizing when something is having a moment, and acknowledging all the times we get it wrong, it...
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first human to stand atop the tallest spot on Earth when he stepped onto the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953,...
The first notes were not perfect, a touch flat, off the familiar line of melody. But as the chair in which the singer sat swiveled to face the...
Ingenuity died in the heavens this week. On Mars, specifically. This is not some grasp at celestial metaphor. Ingenuity, the little helicopter that...
Extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions. Often, these challenges elicit the best from us humans. Such certainly has been the case...
Something remarkable happened this week. More than 22 years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, New York City officials said they had...
Sometimes the end of an era smacks you in the face. Sometimes it just slips away, so quietly that it takes us time to realize that it's over. Eras are...
It’s just a doorway to a house. Over the years, one of many doorways to many houses. It beckons, as doorways do. But whatever the doorway in...
I'm looking forward to welcoming my ghosts again. They always come this time of year. They're not the haunting kind, except in the sense of how much I...
I held my two newest grandchildren this week. It was exhilarating. And soothing. And nourishing. And instructive. When you hold a newborn, nothing...
Obsolescence creeps in on little cat feet. One watches for signs. A creak in the body here. A memory escaped there. A fluidity of movement...