And what, you may be wondering, is “passive greed”? Look, I know you’re not nakedly greedy, a rapacious monster trying to grab all you...

Inches from my left shoulder, on the sill of the window here in my study, rests a poem that I typed out and posted there.  I re-read the...

I sat down to write a piece about whatever happened to truth in public life. Instead, I was forced off the road by a challenge to my own...

We seem to be having some trouble figuring out how to kill the 2,755 prisoners currently on death row. Turns out all the usual...

I just got word that Anita died today. It felt like a gut punch. But I haven’t seen her for fifty years. So why do I feel kind of...

When she was seven years old, our daughter Shannon questioned Ruth Handler—then CEO of Mattel and creator of “Barbie”—on the untapped...

I just got rejected for enrollment at a school. Maybe it was ageism, maybe not. But it felt pretty sketchy. For many decades, I’ve had...

Whatever happened to easy questions? Whatever happened to easy answers? A beloved friend living many states away called and asked me if...

How can I not write about this? Of the three ordained Presbyterian pastors in my immediate family, I’m the only one with a penis. Most...

I am feeling like a three-year-old these days. So are you. And not in a good way. I shall explain. I first observed the feeling we are...