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"Life is so full of noise and speed, that any opportunity we afford ourselves to stop and think about deeply serious things is a gif...

When my brothers and I were kids, we went off to a sleepaway camp in Maine [right] for eight weeks. And we were away . Sure, I...

My late mother was part amphibian; she preferred a Best Western with a pool to a Ritz without one. And so I spent my brother's weddi...

R.I.P. Clarence Clemons. It is truly the end of an era. The E Street Band was the closet approximation to a family I ever saw on a rock an...

I am an Emmy voter. And boy was I happy when buried in the mailbox onslaught that included discs for Gene Simmons' Family Jewels and G...

A lot of my journalism isn't on the Internet, but when people write to ask me for a copy of an article, it's never, say, whe...

As I bulleted up to the Beacon Theater to see Elvis Costello for the umpteenth time, delayed by tornadoes (not local ones, but covering Jopl...