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...

I’m a car guy. Have been since I started working as a mechanic in a garage in Fresno, California, when I was twelve years old. Learned...

That’s what I asked my new primary care doctor—a gerontologist. “What do you think I’m likely to die from, and how long from now?” He...

Have you ever seen a geode? Kinda ugly on the outside. Rough. Dull. Like a coarse granite softball. Or the forbidding stone wall of a...

In 1970, we Americans held about 300,000 of our fellow Americans in prisons and jails. Today, it’s closer to 2,000,000. Can you think...

I just discovered that I am an expert in being oblivious. (Oxford English Dictionary definition—oblivious: not aware of or not concerned...