George D. Christie

I try to focus on the bright side when I think of my father. I spent a lot of time with my parents, right through my teenage years and college. As a family, we went out to eat, and to shop and travel. But then he died, suddenly, shockingly, of a massive heart attack. I […]

Judith M. Shaw

Susan Garascia

Jeff Katz

One indication of a foundering movement occurs when the basic phrase used to describe it is constantly being updated as the old terms are revealed as flawed. In today’s example, note how the “looming crisis” caused by mildly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere used to be called “global warming.” When that fact had […]

We had another positive clinic visit this week. I actually got an A-plus from the doctor for the way my blood work has progressed. That’s right — A-plus, and I didn’t even study. The subject of remission finally came up. I had been reluctant to ask, just in case. I mean, not knowing was better […]

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord. And although retribution shall surely come in the fullness of time, a ballplayer can only wait so long. Accordingly, when Boston slugger David Ortiz came to bat against Tampa Bay’s David Price at the end of May — for the first time this season — Price fired the very […]

Josh Sugarmann