Lost in New Jersey

Once upon a time, it was Groundhog Day, and I saw my shadow as I left for a Saturday morning seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Ma...

Being active on Goodreads since this past August has inspired me to resolve this year to read and review more books. Here's a list of wh...

Last weekend my wife asked me, “Is there anything you need at Home Depot?” I laughed heartily and noted, for the record, that this might...

What do Derek Jeter, Flannery O’Connor and John Grisham have in common? Just another day in my life: 20,518 and counting… Yesterday, ...

The day after Neil Armstrong took this step in 1969, our family visited my nearly 100-year-old great grandmother. She had lived most of...

These are hard times for writers. Certain celebrities who are already wildly successful in other areas – and I’m looking at you, Steve Marti...

A year ago, I deactivated my Facebook account. And now, looking back, I regret that. Having a job as a company spokesman, something al...

A version of this post appeared on the Huffington Post's site. Pianist Glenn Gould notably recorded Bach's "Goldberg Variati...