Lost in New Jersey

When Pope Francis was leaving St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on September 24, 2015, I gave him a nervous, friendly wave, and he res...

I've updated a small Pinterest site I posted several years ago about Verizon's response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. ...

Have you read the recently published “Go Set a Watchman”? One of my favorite writers, Harper Lee ( see here ), had originally submitted th...

Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. But write as if Syd Penner's looking over your shoulder. Penner...

I was half the age of Nabokov’s protagonist when I first read “Lolita” – and it enthralled me. As of my last reading, just a few weeks ag...

I had intended to post a collection of colorful photos on Facebook from a recent visit to New Orleans, where I met up with my sister from Ca...

I had a meeting this afternoon at a PR agency on the East Side, so I worked from home this morning and drove in. I thought I’d meet my daug...

Randy Johnson, inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame today, is an improbable role model. To paraphrase Crash Davis  (my ficti...

My wife secretly took this photo of me and my daughter the other day -- an auspicious date in music history , She captioned it, "La...