Liberally lucky
It began with relentlessly recycled footage of a hijacked commercial jet slamming into a New York City skyscraper, followed by [...]
Thoughts on “Smart” teaching
Late last summer I sat down to think about how I'd teach my psychology classes in the coming semester. We [...]
My place to be
The first time I heard the late English singer-songwriter Nick Drake, I thought he was Welsh because of the inflexions [...]
Chasing the Northern Lights
We'd talked many times about seeing the Northern Lights together. But we'd had a few spats of late — it [...]
The sands of time
Light rain had fallen for most of a virtually sleepless stormy night a few weeks ago. I got up around [...]
Bugs, butterflies, and wisdom
In the past month, I’ve encountered two big roaches in my car. A while ago, I wrote about my fear [...]
Italy and COVID: Strike two
Advocates of the so-called herd immunity strategy to combat the novel coronavirus might want to take pause from their declarations [...]
The I in me
Near-blindness makes the masked people look like mutants. The store innards seem to me like a place occupied by a [...]
Fritter away
Have you noticed during this strange and surreal time that when a guest is with CNN's Christiane Amanpour (or on [...]
Never an empty bed
My father flew B-17 bombers over occupied Europe in World War II. The planes, which took off from primitive airfields [...]
The girl who isn’t
I'm getting ready to interview a man I hope will have sex with me. He's sweet, or so I'm told, [...]