Living In Place

Just days after lamenting the demise of my local newspaper, it carried good news in a banner headline: Reformer, Three Other Papers, Sold to Local Investors.Four men from...

On the night of the first full-moon after the vernal equinox, Jews all over the world celebrate Passover, the holiday marking their escape from slavery in Egypt, including in...

Not many books I’ve read about writing and staying inspired have confronted the fear factor, so I was eager to read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. At...

The good news is that we live in an age of instant, global news.The bad news is that we live in an age of instant,  global news.The good news is that we can find out what’s going...

Bernie Sanders has been called “elderly.”I don’t think so.I was enjoying Michael Kazin’s New York Times Magazine column about the term “populist” in American political history, a...