Essays

The modest amount of insight I have come to acquire about the tortured history of Afghanistan in recent decades I [...]

When I finally reached a deal with my daughter to get an iPhone, or some derivation of it (she gave [...]

I sometimes take a break to watch old episodes of the crime show "CSI", which started out focusing on a [...]

As some of you may know by now, my 10-year-old daughter takes precocious to another level. She especially loves watching [...]

My 10-year-old daughter Rebecca has become a devotee of Wikipedia. She's renamed her tablet Wiki and spends hours scrolling through [...]

Like many people on our delightfully benighted planet I've had no choice but to have COVID on my mind. Waiting [...]

As a single father to a 10-year-old girl I've learned it’s a really smart thing to find a secret place [...]

My daughter Rebecca has her first boyfriend and he goes by the name Casey, or Case: "it depends on how [...]

American football these days is much about brain health. If you happened to be an alien examining our barking species [...]

My daughter Rebecca, who turned 10 on New Year's Eve, has become my guide to the new world of verbs. [...]

To be hoisted by one's own petard is an archaic if colorful little way of suggesting being burned by one's [...]

Even in modern times, humans and their leaders imagine security as a place away from madding crowds outside or below, writes David Deropolous.