When I read, in a reputable scientific journal, that the universe we live in may be more like one of those fancy 3-D images that they use on bank cards and '80s knicknacks than it is like the traditional heaven/earth/sky/ model ... well, I rejoice, and I hope you do, too.… Read full post »

It was New Year's Eve day, 1983, when a Massachusetts cop broke my right front tooth by grabbing my heavy sweater at the neck from the other side of the bars of the cell I was in and yanking, slamming my face and mouth against the metal. I had been in… Read full post »

I was in my local Cumberland Farms this morning. Not the one that cards everyone who buys a pack of cigarettes even if they look like they are 100 years old, and I know that they do that because I was standing in line some months ago when an older woman… Read full post »

The "first" Robert Benchley was the one I thought I sort of knew, as much as you can know someone who died 11 years before you were born. He wrote brilliantly and hilariously for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, won an Oscar and, by all accounts, acquitted himself/… Read full post »