I remember standing in the Atlanta airport the day after Election Day in 2004, watching John Kerry and John Edwards give concession speeches. I was dumbfounded that America could vote for a second George W. Bush administration. How could any thinking person cast their ballot for such a vacuous disaster as that? George W. Bush… Read more »
I have been hunting for about a dozen years and have three deer to show for it, but I don’t regret a minute of hunting. As my friend Steve reminds me, “A day in the woods is a good day.” This past deer season was my first back in the woods since the pandemic, and… Read more »
Amid the implosion of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges (I am far from the only one but I told you so) and the mid-term election vote counting, Twitter has become a bigger and more chaotic donnybrook under the leadership of Elon Musk. Many friends on the platform object to Musk’s policies and are… Read more »
Because New York contains people from every corner of the world, nothing that happens in the world goes unnoticed. For something like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, New Yorkers who didn’t know saw just how much Ukrainians have influenced our city. I remember discovering an area known as Little Ukraine when I was younger walking… Read more »
We entered 2022 in a state of sickness but also with a determination to reenter life with meaning and determination. I sat on a couch with a plastic cup full of soda and a non-alcoholic sparkling grape juice as the giant Waterford crystal ball dropped in Times Square on television. The children that wouldn’t to… Read more »
Early in May, I returned to a company office to work for the first time since March 2020. The company I worked for at the time is headquartered in Times Square. The earliest express bus that comes through my neighborhood arrived at 6 a.m. and it was at about half capacity—pre pandemic this bus would… Read more »
A mile and a half from where I live, at the same intersection where I’ve used the ATM countless times and taken my children for numerous fast food happy meals, a man was killed outside a bar after being punched in a fight. A 35-year-old-man punched a man 20 years his senior. The older man… Read more »
More than 30 years ago now, I was selected as my high school’s intern for our local Congressman. I spent a week working from the Capitol Hill office of Representative Bruce Morrison, a Democrat who represented the third district of Connecticut. Though he was running for Governor of Connecticut that year, he still kept a… Read more »
In the midst of a brutally chaotic and violent week, we lost one of our fiercest and funniest voices with the death of Kathy Shaidle in Ontario on January 9. Kathy Shaidle was an opinion writer, poet, film, and cultural critic and unrelenting defender of free speech. She was a conservative Catholic who made enemies… Read more »
Happy New Year from New York City, where neither the Coronavirus, incompetent leadership, nor burgeoning crime can kill us. We have been through a lot over the past year and will go through much more before our current pandemic is over. Things may never return to pre-pandemic “normal” again and that’s not all bad. We… Read more »
