Category: Essays

You can spend your whole adult life and career working at shaping opinion, without really knowing, for sure, if you’re succeeding…

When I die, spread my ashes on this land; and when you hear the wind gently blowing through the pines, it is my voice, singing to you from afar…

One was carrying an Amazon package and said, “I’d be rich if my wife quit ordering from Amazon!”…

Another email, starting out with “Dear User,” said I have some “Annual plan” that I do not have. And that I could click on a tab in the email, or call, to check billing information for the phantom plan…

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, was on TV the other day, with words about the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party, too…

“The election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, with main offices in Denver and Toronto, filed $1.3 billion defamation lawsuits…”

And then I’m thinking… Heaven help us! We may be going down similar paths. Or the same collision course with an iceberg, the doomed ship…

‘Pickle.’ That’s another oldie but goodie when, rather than saying someone’s in a real bind, one says ‘What a pickle’ someone’s in!

Similar to many of my teenage students, I feel trapped in my apartment, tethered to an online school bell…

I remember small shops near residential neighborhoods, with vegetables for sale, and butcher shops and bakeries, and small restaurants….

‘Muck around’ is an idiom, defined in the Free Dictionary as “doing something without much purpose….”

Then, for some reason, I’m associating that old expression with something having to do with a Texas lawsuit…

He and I craned our heads up at the giant windmills. I cracked a joke about newfangled inventions…

“I feel very optimistic about our ability to have great relationships to cities,” noted Mr. Chesky, who thinks his business may be trending toward “becoming less transient…”

As cold weather descended upon Washington, DC, last fall, I deleted my dating apps….