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Feb 2005, "The Gates"  A recent NYC history blog post about a statue fragment - more on that in a moment - reminded me how mu...

"I'm sure you've seen this," someone emailed me, with a link to t he story on a website called "The Daily" abo...

Many people find moving traumatic. But I was never one of those people. Growing up, I was the opposite of an army brat: my family only mo...

The recent brouhaha about the Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings and his warts-and-all reporting that led to a general's resig...

In recent days a lot of friends are experiencing the rupture of sending their kids off to camp. Four or eight weeks apart! I  of course miss...

Last night in one of those self-destructive insomniac moments, I read a news item about a "hot" screenwriter who sold a baseball m...