Def Leppard, a band that provided much of the soundtrack of my youth, has re-recorded its backlist in an effort to regain financial control of their music.With newly recorded "forgeries" of "Pour…
Torie Bosch of Slate wrote a piece about a recent debate on Wikipedia over the validity of an entry on Kate Middleton’s bridal gown as a means of illustrating the…
While I was home alone for four days recently, I was reminded about how much easier it is to die when you live alone. Carrying the dog downstairs one evening,…
Honestly, people… who the hell continues to do this? It must be the same moron, traveling from public restroom to public restroom, dropping paper towel after paper towel into the…
My wife and kids spent the last three days in the Berkshires with the in-laws while I remained stuck in Connecticut for work. As always, my in-laws took remarkable care…
Our longtime friends, Charles and Justine, moved to Arizona last week, and I am deeply saddened by their departure. Charles was a professor of physics at the University of Connecticut…
A reader asked me if there were any quotations that served as a source of inspiration for me. While I’m not entirely sure how much inspiration I derive from them,…
We spent the weekend at the in-law’s home in the Berkshires, where my daughter was playing with my wife’s old Fisher-Price Sesame Street Clubhouse, circa 1973. The in-laws throw nothing…
1. The cold person’s temperature preference always trumps the warm person’s temperature preference. 2. The parent who argues for greater frequency in the bathing of a child assumes unjust moral…
In a piece entitled Stop Wondering Why There Were Young Children At The Aurora Theater, author Lisa Belkin asks “What is it that led so many people to dwell on…