(The photo shows my mother and myself in 1943) The wonderful thing about having a bad memory--as I do--is that I had completely fo...

  I posted this exactly two years ago, when the Boston Marathon bombing was still breaking news.  The point I make below--about cell ...

--> I read in yesterday's’s New York Times business section (June 30) that Facebook last week admitted to doing “psychological...

 I collect way too many things, and one of my favorite categories is 19 th century friendship albums , which were created ...

Photo-Getty Images Yesterday I was in the waiting room of a doctor’s office when the receptionist got a call from her son, 4...

  This is a story about how an intrepid Greek-American mom in Alaska tackled economic problems caused by a family health crisi...

On Wednesday, at 7:00 a.m., a  phone call from my niece woke me up.  “Are you planning a trip to Scotland?” she asked.  It took me a while...

(The photo shows my mother and myself in 1943) When you turn 70, (as I do on Friday, Feb. 4) you can’t consider yourself middle-aged any m...

I thought I’d introduce this subject with a photo of a fabulous horse-drawn hearse that I saw in Granada, Nicaragua.   The coffin rides l...