“We become the stories we hear.” The setting was the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., late 1978. We were celebrating the introduction of...

We went to a small engagement party last weekend. By happy and improbable coincidence, the granddaughter of friends here in New Jersey...

I call it a bad year when all three of my brothers die. Well, fourteen months, if you want to be technical about it. Two of them—Gene...