Here’s what I said in a letter published on the Baltimore Sun editorial page years ago: “If a restaurant ad…
Since many of us are sad about not traveling this pandemic year to join loved ones at Thanksgiving, I thought…
The drama among the Spring Grove swans, gliding tranquilly on their spring-fed lakes, has reached Shakespearean levels. Where this drama…
After the last of our four dogs passed away some years ago, we decided to share our lives with animals…
the paradox is that while we can cure humans by killing sharks, we’ll simultaneously damage large parts of the oceans’ ecosystems, leading to the type of situation that brought us Covid. Maybe the fish we eat will carry disease, or maybe the water itself.
In this period of Covid and misinformation about it and the US elections, my friends wonder how they can find…
Rescuing food from the dead refrigerator sent me into a reverie. At age 19, I went to live in Italy…
My book, SLYVIE DENIED, is set in the 1970s when vast tracts of land across the US were off the…
As a kid in my suburban hometown outside Chicago, I remember walking along the sidewalk and starting to notice what…
As fall approaches, I’m thinking of summer sounds I will and won’t miss. The latter group is easy to list:…