You don’t call a woman who is over 18 a girl — I know that. So let’s just get that out of the way. Now then… In Michael A. Heller and James Salzman’s book Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, the reader will discover, perhaps with…

How my wife killed me by cutting my bathrobe to bits In March 2001, an Afghani soldier of the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, aimed a howitzer-like anti-aircraft weapon upon the stone Buddhas of Bamiyan — two 6th-century statues of Vairocana Buddha and Gautama Buddha, each over…

People talk about their so-called third place in life — the first being home, the second, work — as a haven where they can come as they are, free of judgment and stress. Bowl Rite Lanes was my third place, a bowling alley in Union City, New Jersey so named…

On June 29, 2017, in his Major League Baseball debut against the Chicago White Sox, rookie outfielder Dustin Fowler stood hunched in heightened anticipation, embraced in the cavernous nook of the short porch right field corner of Yankee Stadium where Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson, Paul O’Neill and many others had…

What parent hasn’t been concerned that their kids are coming of age in a world that is worse than the world they grew up in? Probably all of them, considering that we all came of age naive to the horrors of the present moment of our early youth. I was…