Lost in New Jersey

I met Nancy, my wife, in the 1980s at a newspaper called Catholic New York. That paper published its last edition today. Its editor, my frie...

No, this isn't a Zoom meeting; it's nine of more than 200 signs of appreciation around town.  Among things I'm missing t...

A book store in Nyack, NY; photo by @bvarphotos With the untimely death of the New York Mets 2019 season, I’ve had time to catch up on...

On August 28, 2019, a small ceremony in a small corner of Paterson, NJ, rekindled the spirit of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I ...

Meeting the legendary Harold Burson, July 8 in New York. The center of the PR universe shifted nearly a thousand miles southwest this pa...

Anne M. Buckley, the retired editor-in-chief of Catholic New York, died April 23, 2019. I've mentioned Anne here before, reprinting ...

THE Tom Lynch Who inspired your love of photography? For me, the answer is simple: Tom Lynch. The hard part is, I can't sho...

“Annie Hall” is a favorite old movie. In a favorite scene , a Columbia professor who teaches “TV, Media and Culture” stands in line in a...

Yesterday a local newspaper feature story inspired me to visit a modest church on Auburn Street in Paterson, NJ. It's the site...