I cheated once. I think it was the only time I deliberately, knowingly did something to “win”. Fresno High School. Junior year....

Early in my career, I served as a pastor on the staff of a large church. One day a parishioner came to meet with me, ostensibly for...

The best tennis match I ever played consisted of only one marathon set. That set ended inconclusively with each of us having won fifteen...

A few years back, Patti and our daughter Ali and I were in a serious pickle. Sailing from Connecticut to Maine in a newly acquired...

It took me a while, but now I appreciate why some individuals want to be referred to as “they”. Thanks to sensitive tutelage by younger...

King Friday XIII didn't call to wish me Happy Birthday this year. He did call for thirty years. Every November 26 from 1971 to 2001. ...

We were followed when we went into New York City last weekend. As we approached the Broadway theater district in our car, my cell phone...

“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...