For the first time in fifteen years, we bought a new car. It’s a good car … a well-built car … and, with proper care and maintenance, it might last until we’re emotionally ready to face another shopping trip to the dealership. It’s not that the dealer treated us badly. We were greeted as [...]

Nothing gets my heart beating like new technology. Well, that’s not quite true — a sweeping vista, a beautiful woman, and an unexpected fall from a great height all rate right up there on the edging-into-coronary-territory scale. Still, seductive new gadgets do about the same for my heart rate as a four-hour cardio session or [...]

  My oldest son is going to the University to study theater. I blame his second grade teacher. That was his first ever exposure to drama, as a performer not an audience member. Miss Edelstein’s class delighted a classroom full of restless parents with their interpretation of Stop, Look and Listen: A Lesson in Crosswalk [...]

Superheroes are big in America right now. Larger-than-life characters including Spiderman, Mr. Fantastic and Al Gore all use their special skills to try to save the world. Spiderman slings webs, Mr. Fantastic stretches himself, and Al Gore writes books. Every one of them is fighting some kind of super-villain from mutants and aliens to corrupt [...]