
18 years after 28 days
Danny Boyle's plague-driven 2002 film "28 Days Later" comes with an alternative ending. In the first, the sole survivors of [...]

Metaphor in a mine
The blind man entombed in the coal mine is not aware of his predicament, at least not precisely. He begins [...]

One but not likely done
My Polish-born mother had two unassailable pet theories, that mortality would ignore you if you refused to acknowledge its existence [...]

Raging toward a second act
Despite impeachment and East Coast disdain, Donald Trump stands a strong chance of re-election, at least if history is allowed to vote.

The local mind
Early into what would become a lengthy Rome sojourn I asked a man standing alone at a bus stop for [...]

A few basic words
At age 12, grazed by the early scintilla of puberty, I summoned the courage to ask my father about sex, [...]

Irreversible
Smartphones and human eyes share a common downside; they both require power sources. For the eyes, that source is neuro-cellular [...]

Expressions are served
When I was five and a half and had just arrived in the United States, I was one morning summarily [...]