After almost 36 years, I finally completed my Eagle Scout project on Saturday. Almost certainly a world record in terms of how long it took someone to complete an Eagle…

Charlie's baseball team lost their playoff game on Friday night in an extra-inning nail-biter. It's the end of another baseball season, and an enormously successful one, too. Charlie once played…

At a dinner with his players, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta secretly hired a team of professional pickpockets. The sleight-of-hand artists went around the tables, stealing phones and wallets from an…

The weather Gods have cooperated and given me a sunny, 70-degree day tomorrow, which means I can complete my Eagle Scout project after waiting 36 years. I'm very excited. Town…

Elysha, some friends, and I saw David Sedaris perform last night at The Bushnell. We've seen Sedaris perform before, and as we've come to expect, he was excellent. I've read…

Duke Ellington once said, "I don't need more time; I need a deadline.” If you make things, you almost certainly understand this.

Nothing makes me so simultaneously happy and sad as a memorial bench placed in a perfect spot by people who loved a person who is no more. It's a beautiful…

For my entire life, I have been ordering burgers from restaurants and asking them to hold their special sauce because — and I know this sounds obvious — I don't…

While I was in Ottowa, I saw a fantastic memorial to women's suffrage, which reminded me: American women have only been allowed to vote for 104 years. Barely more than…