03.10.2023 Columns Column: Changes to baseball? Do not get me started We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
02.14.2023 Columns Column: On Valentine’s Day, love’s labor’s won Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
04.01.2022 Columns Column: Truth and consequences on April 1 Today, April 1, many of you will join me in the liar’s club. Hey, there’s a big dog — wait — is that a coyote in the backyard? What?...
02.14.2022 Columns Column: Ten years ago, after Super Bowl XLVI, my life changed Ten years ago this month, the morning after Super Bowl XLVI (Giants 21 — Patriots 17) I gave up drinking. People asked why. That is, some people asked, and...
02.07.2021 Columns Column: February contains some surprises The smallest in the family, but unique among its siblings for much more than size. And the only shape-shifter, changeling and magician, which every now and then becomes larger,...
11.10.2018 Columns Column: Finding solace in the magic of Ireland We got a new long-term parking service at JFK — our old one went out of business — and hired a robot to give us directions for a 10...
05.13.2018 Columns Column: Mom always kept the nest in order This is the sixth spring I’ve looked out my office window at a small open-sided metal box under the eaves with a stiff wire protruding from it. Picture a...
01.06.2018 Columns Column: The word police are on patrol: look out! It’s time for the annual report on how English — the language of Shakespeare, Emerson, Joyce and professor Irwin Corey — fared in 2017.
07.02.2017 Columns Column: How well do you know American history? Take the test With Independence Day this week, we are back in the business of bemoaning that Americans are woefully weak when it comes to having any real knowledge of the history...
03.12.2017 Columns Column: Baseball — it’s no longer just a walk in the park We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
