Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son
We were sitting outside, enjoying a clear night after a spring of constant rain, when my wife told me that our eldest son was going to Martha’s Vineyard with friends for the Fourth of July. “You’ll […]
We were sitting outside, enjoying a clear night after a spring of constant rain, when my wife told me that our eldest son was going to Martha’s Vineyard with friends for the Fourth of July. “You’ll […]
I remember what it was like, back when I first started blogging. It must have been–I don’t know–2005, 2006? It seems so long ago, my beginnings are lost in the fog of memory, just like […]
In Russia, the age at which the average person becomes happy is higher than the average life expectancy. Review of The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch, The Wall Street Journal It’s Friday, which for me–Fedor Sergeyevich […]
UPTON, Mass. Twelve-year-old Jennifer Goshecki would like to have a Facebook account, but her mother Julie doesn’t think she’s ready. “Why should I expose her to millions of dirty old men on the internet,” she asks rhetorically. […]
BOSTON. It’s nearing lunchtime, and the pungent aroma of zlagnistki, a rich soup made from radishes, cardamom seeds and dried shoelace aglets, begins to waft out onto the sidewalks of Pope’s Triangle, a neighborhood that is […]
I was almost feeling better–almost over the sense of pain and heartbreak that sweeps over me every June 25th, the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. Even though I hadn’t actually bought one of his records […]
It happened last night, as it has before, on other Saturday nights. My wife and I had taken our seats at a nice restaurant, and the waiter asked if we’d like to order drinks. My wife asked […]
Today, as every schoolboy knows who went to school in Sedalia, Mo.–Queen City of the Prairies, Gateway to the Ozarks, the State Fair City–is Poor Fern’s Day. What? You’ve never heard of the holiday? Have […]
I share something with my two male cats other than a fondness for weekend naps; we have all been neutered. “We know how you feel.” I went under the knife a decade and a […]
ITTA BENNA, Mississippi. Here in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, you can’t throw a frisbee without hitting a legend of the blues such as A.C. “Red Dog” Johnson, who’s played bottleneck-style on the solid-body […]