More than a decade ago, I was officiating a wedding for a couple at a cabin on a campground in Maine. I'd call her a friend, but until I arrived…

A new study of termite mounds near the Buffels River in Namaqualand, South Africa, has dated the mounds to be 34,000 years old and shows that they are still inhabited…

When politicians — usually Republicans — and their corporate interests rail against government regulation, we should rightly point to incidents like the Love Canal, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the…

Almost two decades ago, a friend named Tom tossed a set of golf clubs into the back of my truck — purchased at a garage sale for $10 — and…

I've heard a lot of people talk about the value of learning to be bored. Kids, they say, need to learn to be bored from time to time. I don't…

Paul Theroux on criticism: "In the short run, criticism seems to have merit; in the end, criticism is useless—a good book has a long life in spite of anything said…

I took Charlie to his first Patriots game on Sunday. I had brought him to preseason games before, but this was the first regular season game that he attended. Also,…

Laura Dern — Academy Award, Emmy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award winner — was forced to drop out of UCLA film school at age 17 after being offered…

Elysha sent this to me. It made me laugh aloud. It also worries me. I encounter people who seem to expect every moment of life to be deep, meaningful, and…

Writer (and now singer) Marian Schembari writes about the joy of returning to your childhood hobbies.  Schembari was having a hard time remembering what joy felt like, so she returned…