Tickets are still available for Wednesday's Connecticut Forum. If you live in the Hartford area and are a fan of podcasts like me, this is not to be missed. A…

I was told that it was a video of a marriage proposal in a McDonald's drive thru that apparently went bad. I clicked on the link, thinking I'd be watching…

I grew up watching The Brady Bunch. I loved The Brady Bunch. Sadly, not everything on The Brady Bunch was as wholesome as it seemed. Barry Williams (Greg) and Maureen McCormick…

A reader sent me this. Clearly a reader with excellent taste. If only every bookshelf looked like this:

These are things that many or most people seem to have done at some point in their lives that I have not. _______________________________________ Never used an illegal drug of any…

In an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, Louisiana Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Bobby Jindal writes that he is "holding firm against gay marriage." If I were…

PERSONAL HEALTH 1. Don’t die. I am alive as of this posting. 2. Lose 20 pounds. I've lost zero pounds in May, stalling my weight loss at four pounds.  Not good.…

It's impossible to understand what it was like to live through World War II unless you were there, so casting judgment on the time or the decisions made is always precarious.…

My latest appearance on Slate's Ask a Teacher podcast addresses the question, "Do you teach to the test?"

I've never felt that I was a bad or disappointing husband, and my wife has never implied as much. But if that were ever the case, I would show her this…