Our Early Loves Can Take Us Places When I was in grade school, I wrote a story about an avalanche. What did I know about that frightening Read More
When You Don’t Get the Window Seat This post recalls an experience many of us have had. And lately, when I fly, I never get a window Read More
Adjusting to New Developments Dear Readers: some of you have seen this piece, as it was posted last week…but most of you have NOT, Read More
Are We “Trailing Clouds of Glory”? Sometimes I yearn for an answer, and thus would love your thoughts concerning this: why is it that as we Read More
WHAT ARE YOU READING? 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Like many others, I don’t have a trip to Europe or some exotic island cruise on my calendar. Read More
GOOD NIGHT, HAPPY PEOPLE Our home in Chicago has two walls of windows that look out onto our garden(photos above). Those same windows also Read More
Talking to Strangers Talking to Strangers Malcom Gladwell has so impressed the reading world with his analysis of life, that the term “Gladwellian Read More